Pull a lever!

Having missed going to the Rocks by Rail Museum last week, more about why another day, I arrived to find that the Museum is planning t go hi-tech! Now Hi-tech for the Museum is not some form of digital display or inductive cooker, it is in fact to control the points on site from a central lever frame saving a lot of walking! What is a lever frame you ask. Well it is this only it is its side in the photo from where it was delivered.

Not sure on the history of these levers but there is this clue casted into the frame which indicates that they are from London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. Must check that out when I have time..

Whilst there may be some rust on the lever frame, it has nothing compared to the current Southern brake van being restored.

The amount of rust is so bad that Martyn is having to use a pneumatic needle gun to remove the layers of rust from the steel frame. Hopefully there will be ome sound metal left!

Talking of metal, metal music fan Rob had spent the morning greasing the drag line and looked as though he had been greasing himself too!

He then went off to do some final jobs on the Plant Shed including riveting the final fascia pieces into place. The Plant Shed project has now been three years in the making so by the Museum standards its been a quick job!

Meanwhile, no surprises that after two weeks and a fair amount of rain, the grass needed cutting and that is my job!

 I was surprised by just how much it had grown as was the lawn mower which struggled to get through this stuff!

The nice thing about grass cutting is that unlike restoring a brake van or building a plant shed, you see almost instantons results! Very gratifying!

Just wish I could pull a lever to control the lawn mower from a central point!