The Moles of Kirkby Stephen
Another concrete bench recovery session: not to be confused with the quest to find my marbles. Or Will's dropped loose change. Honest! Will's Feet Recently a lot of time has gone in to the lattice bracket signal in one way or another, but we were back digging (mining?) for gold concrete: trying to recover further concrete bench legs for reuse. The usual digging out happened fairly rapidly, but cutting the rusted remains of the securing bolts was tougher, and even when these were cut through we had problems. The bolts had blown with the rust build up and were wedged in the concrete. This required much more brute force (coupled with plenty of ignorance) to separate. Will cutting the bolts holding the concrete sections together . Whilst Steve was extracting his foot from the rabbit holes, I dropped down the embankment and discovered another couple of relics: an NER drive rod which would have pushed the signal arm to show an 'Off' as well as a back blind from the...