Two jobs completed over the course of the week – Whilst we continue to be blessed with lovely sunny weather we continued with the grass cutting exercises and cut back the overgrowth on the embankment just north of the bridge along back towards Bo’ness to the 20 mph sign.
The station hutch (Birkhill Clay Mine) has now been completely stripped down to the base so that the ironwork can be cleaned up and repainted and new timbers can be eventually sourced to replace the rotten sections. Thankfully the engraved sections of wood are in a good enough condition to save and refit along with a few other sections, however 75% of the timbers are to far gone. The removal of the nuts was a task and a few choice words where used at times, but the ‘bolt splitter’ tool made sufficient impression to allow the nuts to be removed.
