Hello all,
With a busy weekend ahead I started work early today, before the kids got up, to make sure that there'd be at least some progress on the Penlan station project.
This morning's task was to add the platform. I'd prepared the ground a little earlier in the week, painting the wooden edging with preservative and walling in the hebe at the back of the platform with scraps of slate, so this morning was about spreading the Postcrete that forms the surface, representing the old WHR's simple earth/gravel platforms.
Here it is awaiting a spray with the hose, with the station building wrapped in clingfilm for protection and then nestled into the cement in an attempt to avoid there being a gap:
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You can't see it in the picture, but behind the station the new siding is ballasted and covered in plastic sheet while the SBR dries. Typically for me, I lost the turkey baster I purchased for SBR application before I'd even used it, so it was back to my old syringe, but with the flow controlled by my finger rather than the plunger. Probably not
strictly in line with the H&S guidelines on the container, but I seem to have survived unscathed...
Family duties permitting I
might be able to get the rest of the ballasting done this weekend, paving the way for running some trains on the next one. We shall see...
Cheers all,
Andrew.
for 4 days now.. 