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Wharf Station rebuilding - Progress report, 14th March 2005
Last week was a very busy one; the large engines were successfully brought back into the museum, which now contains George Henry, Rough Pup, Dot, the Guinness works engine and last, but not least, Jubilee 1897. There are several wagons in as well and the museum is starting to fill up.
The new café is up and running and people seem to like it; the kitchen contractors/installers have come back and have gone through their snags list. There are a few extra items to install which we hope to get in place before Easter.
Two new CCTV cameras have been installed, two new keypads for the burglar alarm have been sited and the alarm itself zoned such that we can operate from one area of the building without removing the security alarm from it all. Work has been completed above the platform on the underside of the station building overhang, has been covered with match-boarding and then painted along with the columns. The contractors appeared on Wednesday and finished the wooden fencing on the Neptune Road perimeter, although this still needs a finishing top coat of white gloss paint. They appeared on the very day that we put "Dot" back on the museum's top floor, but we managed - just!
New and part-used furniture for the offices arrived at various times in the week and people have started to move into their new abodes. This weekend, work was underway on the building's telephone systems, and installing a new computer in the secretary's/accountant's office. All incoming telephone lines to site will ultimately lie underground and it is hoped that BT will remove the telephone pole that sits at the top of the drive - we will need to get the new 'phone systems up and running first, though.