Oooops and back to vegetational butchery!

A really great day at the Rocks By Rail Museum today where vegetation clearance was the days task but first I had to look at the 'Ooooops' situation out on the sidings.

Not sure quite what happened but obviously moving this wagon was not the best thing to do! It will never ride the rails again as it is too far gone in terms of deterioration to be restored but the metal parts may provide spares for more savable wagons.

Meanwhile the aim of the vegetational butchery was to clear around the back of the cafe and hopefully solve a damp issue such as that caused by the blocked gutters.

It took a while to get to this point and even longer to get to the point below!

Like all vegetational butchery activities there is always something to be found that has been lost to the overgrowth for years and this was it today! No idea what it is and no one else knows either. I suspect it may have been a coaling point for steam engines but no doubt its true use will be found eventually!

And all this clearing and butchery to try to prevent the cafe gutters blocking up like this! There is almost a mini garden of growth in there!

Talking of clearing, it will be back to clearing magazines from the Man Cave tomorrow - Oh joy!