Monday 30th - oooh, That's Different!

 As I drove in there was something very odd about the the train parking.

Paul and Roger O discussing the plan for today, but as you can see Train 1 was mostly off of platform 2. Look carefully and you can see an orange clad volunteer and behind him a trolley parked on the barrow crossing. Later the explanation was revealed.

The team today was up to 8 volunteers. As well as Roger and Paul there was John, Nigel, Jane, David, Mark and yours truly. 

Last weekend was the Ale weekend and a lot of the liquid was wasted and ended up on the floor of Train 2! So that had to have a thorough mop after the cleaning. By comparison Train 1 had just one large coffee stain outside of the counter in the RBR. How did it work out like that?

Jane and myself went over to Train 1 whilst the rest of the team dealt with train 2. John was on Team Leader privilege duty of toilets in both sets.

This greeted us on platform 2 :-

You can see the offset, hence this side did not get a wash this week (it was done last week). The explanation arrived later with a visit from C & W head Ian Stroud. He appeared and introduced himself (we have corresponded but never met) and explained work had been needed on the RBR. A gas leak needed fixing and he put in a special day with a colleague (sorry, Ian did say but I forgot the name! It was Phil -Ed.) to fix it. The problem was the generator had to be removed to get at it and that meant the only way was to do it on a non-operating day so that the trolley to hold the generator could be placed on the barrow crossing. Ian also went round and introduced himself to all the rest of the team. Much appreciated to see the HOD.