A day of reds
6 people at CRC, and a productive day. Two brick layers on this ‘red’ day – not red letter, but red bricks. We spent the whole day laying reds, i.e. backing up the blues laid last Thursday.
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| John O washing the blues - yes, washing them. Only 49.999 to go... |
This process is rather faster than laying blues, so lots of mortar was barrowed up and consumed, and three sections had bricks added to them: section 4 had a short row of reds added to finish this section off, section 5 had 3 rows of reds added, and section 6, only just started, had one row of reds added to it.
It was a very breezy day, with heavy showers forecast, but in fact we saw only one, during which we had our tea. When we re-emerged from the gloom of the windowless cabin, the sun was shining brightly. The site was very waterlogged once again, and some time was devoted to re-arranging the scaffolding planks in the bottom of the ‘trenches’ so that the brick layers stood in the dry. We do need to pamper them.
In the afternoon a pile of Brindles was investigated north of the signal box. This was spotted by John C some time ago, and our visit confirmed they were 3 inch Brindles in good condition, presumably formerly in the old platform 2. There are several pallets’ worth to collect. We made a start with one trolley load, but the work is heavy going and it will take several days before all are stacked near the gate ready for transport to Broadway. They will need very little cleaning.
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