...Of Course We Don't Just Lounge Around

It's been a little while since we built up some wooden benches to take the wire wheels we've recently been cleaning up, so we thought we'd tackle another 4. As well as testing them out for comfort!


We use threaded bar to clamp the top to the legs, but to do this, we need holes that go all the way through. This has the additional bonus of preventing the timbers in the ground from splitting.


Once the holes are drilled, threaded bar is pushed through, nuts and washers applied (ensuring the washers are positioned so as to look good...) before it is all tightened up.


Three of the benches are seen here, almost ready for the Moles of KSE to set to and bury them. The left-hand-most bench will take the double dolly reading into the headshunt (beside the signalbox) or along the Tebay line.

The next one that can be seen from the left will take the flat wheels for the wires from these signals so that the wires pass underneath the track. On the right hand side is the final bench of the three, which allows the signal wires to move through 90° to fall into the main wire run, which heads towards the signal box itself. In order to get there, there will be more benches....


I said there were 4 benches, and here is the last one. This is substantially larger, and has to take 10 wheels in total, feeding the signals down by the station platforms. Not all of those are required for Phase 1, but by taking them in to account now, it ought to make Phase 2 simpler...

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