SRPS Birkhill Group

Weeding and clearing was the order of the weekend again, Saturday team continued weeding and clearing around the station area the Sunday squad commenced the clearing of the ramp area down to the new platform which rapidly got overgrown again.

 

 

 

This last week saw the civils team make great strides at Birkhill seeing at least 100m of foundations being poured

 

 

 

 

 

Not to be out done by the Civils team the Signals team have installed the points to the top of all the new Birkhill Signals

 

 

The Civils team where out again this week, preparing the foundations for the first 10 metres of concrete pore, rebar cut to size & support boards secured.  Good progress on foundation digging and leveling continued towards the south end too.

Work continued on the weeding and tidying up of the side garden, which should help the many geraniums the work has also opened up areas to plant and seed to hopefully supress future weed growth. The hedging along the top of the embankment got a tidy up opening up views from the meadow walk path back down onto the platform.

Work has commenced on the construction of Birkhill’s second platform it is the hope of the Civils team to have at least 50% of the foundations concreted before the 7 day running season. A new web page is underway dedicated to the project to track (pardon the pun) the progress over the coming months so please keep an eye out

The recent winds and rain provided the first job of the day of sweeping the length of the platform, the tidy up theme continued to the side of the station building where the weeds had sneakily reappeared over the last few weeks of good weather, its looking this will be the focus of the next few weekends of activity leading up to the next DOWT weekend. For the ‘eagle eyed’ you may just see plastic sheeting next to the loop line, see next post for further info!

General maintenance work was undertaken on the embankment & the area of the future signal box.  The recent good growing weather has seen a significant spurt in growth making an already big challenge even bigger…

It was great to see the lady’s from the Strathkelvin Ramblers Group who stopped off for a bite to eat at Birkhill, they had walked from Linlithgow, and had the chance to get there picture taken with the steam train during there picnic at the station.

We look forward to seeing you again soon. Happy walking!

Work continued on and around the former fireclay mine picnic area and the top of the mine haulage ramp. The strimmer was also used to clear the vegetation around the picnic tables and fence ready for painting.

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After