Drainage work at Redmire
by the Infrastructure Group
Over the weekend of the 23-26 January 2015 at lot of work was carried out in the Redmire area to improve the drainage along the track. This work had been commenced last year but had not been completed. A digger was hired in in order to complete the job faster. Below you can see a photographic record of the work.
Redmire Drainage work - Roger digging the trench with the digger (23/01/2015)
Redmire Drainage work - More digging of the ditch on the second day (24/01/2015)
Redmire Drainage work - Photo showing a completed section of the ditch (24/01/2015)
Redmire Drainage work - A footpath crosses the line at this point (24/01/2015)
Redmire Drainage work - Some fencing was installed adjacent to the footpath in order to direct walkers to cross the track at right angles (24/01/2015)
Redmire Drainage work - Jim digging the trench with the digger (24/01/2015)
Redmire Drainage work - The end of the ditch (25/01/2015)
Redmire Drainage work - Removing soil in the Redmire railhead from up to and above rail height which had been washed from the road above (25/01/2015)
Redmire Drainage work - The digger travelling from one job to the next (25/01/2015)
Redmire Drainage work - Digging a trench on the embankment to take a 28.5m length of 300mm dia pipe to prevent flooding in a field with a footpath in it (25/01/2015)
Redmire Drainage work - Installing the new drainage pipe into the trench (25/01/2015)
Redmire Drainage work - The restored embankment after the drainage pipe has been installed (26/01/2015)
Redmire Drainage work - The outlet of the drainage pipe beside a small culvert (26/01/2015)
Redmire Drainage work - Cleaning out of a U tube drainage system behind Reedmire House (26/01/2015)
The U tube drainage system has been cleaned out and the embankment graded (26/01/2015)
Redmire Drainage work - Ditching on the station road - a bonus job as there was a bit of spare time (26/01/2015)
Redmire Drainage work - Pose of the workers (26/01/2015)