I met up with Jonathan and John in our workshop, we had decided on Sunday to meet up on the Tuesday when the railway is shut to passengers. We would start to dismantle all the old electrical infrastructure on BBS platforms three/four, after the rewiring had been completed. The weather was promising with some late sunshine, quite warm and definitely no rain.Whilst arranging to have a brew before we started, all the civil engineering department volunteers were outside our workshop and it was asked if i could undertake the training on the mobile tower scaffold, which was scheduled to take place on Sunday 15/9/2013.
This was agreed and that after the training was completed the volunteers would help us to dismantle all the old electrical apparatus which is what we had come to do.
The mobile tower scaffold was taken onto the platform three/four and the volunteers were instructed on the safe methods of work whilst erecting and dismantling the scaffold. A manual on the scaffold was given to the civil engineering volunteers and a certificate to say that they had attended a course on the scaffold.
We then started to dismantle the original conduit runs which originally held up the fluorescent light fittings, these ran the length of platforms three and four, the cables were stripped out of the conduits and coiled up ready for scrapping along with the saw up lengths of conduit.
Lunch was then taken in the sunshine before continuing the work on the old electrical equipment, one of the last jobs was to take down the old electrical isolation unit and distribution box with all it's accessories. This had to be removed by grinding away the old fixing screws which had been in place since electricity was first installed in the Station.
A length of rope was thrown over one of the beams of the canopy and fastened to the framework holding the isolation and distribution boxes and gently lowered down to the floor.
The remains of the main electricity supply cable which had been diverted into the new distribution box, was unclipped and removed for scrapping. Next time you are at BBS Station have a look up in the canopy and you will see how much tidier it is now with all the old conduit and redundant cabling and accessories removed.
Our thanks once more to the Civil Engineering team who helped us out on Tuesday we could not have done it all in a day without you.
Too busy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!