The Thin White Line

Another of those jobs that need doing every so often is the painting of the white line along the platform edge.  Now on a smaller preserved railway station, with space for two or three coaches in the platform, this would be a job for an hour or two.  We have the delights of a platform that can hold twelve coaches so that makes the job a little bit longer.  Whoever picked the short straw had a bit of a challenge ahead.

The day kicked off and was going well until reaching the service train parked in the platform.  Temptation to paint over the step was resisted and progress resumed further up the platform.  If anybody stood by the platform edge there was a good chance that they would leave with a nice white stripe across their shoes.

Once past the obstacle left in the platform progress was a bit quicker. Do you think Mr Dulux would like to sponsor the line with all this free advertising?

Now progress was rapid but still a long way to go.  That's about half distance and already multiple cups of tea had been consumed.

Here we are now almost to the end of the platform, just the bit left up to the water crane. Now won't that be a nice sight a loco taking water at the end of the platform on a ten coach train?  It might not happen in the next couple of years but we are progressing towards our dreams.

It's a good job that the down platform is not yet restored as the painting would have been twice the distance.  Many thanks for another job done!


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Now who can think of something to caption this picture?  I think that the guilty parties should be nameless for the moment.  Let's just say that there was a logical reason for this, but that would spoil the fun..  Suggestions welcomed. 

Once again thanks to Andy G for supplying the pictures and to the volunteers for the work done. Fancy joining in?  We are having a Volunteers Day this Saturday, 12th May.  Come and see for yourself and have a chat about what is coming up.