Venturing into a land time forgot!

One thing about the Rocks By Rail Museum is that being a large site in a rural location, nature does have a habit of taking over areas if not kept at bay. Nothing wrong with some vegetation but when it gets to the point that you can not get to things then it is time for a bit of exploration and clearance. Last week I was involved in clearing down the side of one of the containers which revealed an assortment of long forgotten items. Today I ventured round the back where brambles had created an impassable area - a land time forgot. Sheers and cutters in hand it went from this where I had already started...

To this.... 

This area had not been seen for years!

There are five concrete sleepers by the tree and further in I found an oil drum and several concrete slabs.

A strange find was some crash barrier which I moved out of the way.

Most unusual find was this data plate from a JCB digger. Did not have time to look in detail and a lot of the printed text is worn out but there is a stamped serial number on it which may be of interest to someone.

Well no treasure was found but at least the area is a lot clearer and hopefully we can maintain it like that in the future. It needs another day to fully clear out the rest of the brambles so that may be my job next week. Something to look forward to - unless I forget!