Am on the late train this morning and this has given me a chance to check out the new building works at Glenbrook train station this morning. Glenbrook Station is built into a rock cutting and hence you need to go down a long flight of stairs to get to the platform. One day at the front end of the platform they fenced off a section of area and I assumed that they were building an elevator for disabled access. They have done this already at the next station up the mountain (Blaxland) so I assumed that this would be happening.
Then at the back end of the platform, there is a clearing next to the tracks and they brought in a site shed and a big blue international shipping container. They star-picketed the clearing and wrapped blue and white tape across the star pickets as a warning to keep out.
So for the last few days I’ve been thinking that this major project is going to start at the platform.
Today, being on the late train, I arrived and saw 3 guys in the fenced off area. Guess what they’re building…. Rockeries for garden beds! Yep!! They have gone to this time and expense and build-up and they’re building farking rock gardens. One guy was breaking the concrete… one guy was at another section spray painting the location of the rockery and the third guy at was at the first of the 3 marked out areas laying sandstone rocks with mortar / cement. And they were all wearing hard hats and orange vests.
Now I am all for safety on the worksite, but c’mon…
PS – will be driving in tomorrow as I am off to the State of
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They'd get shot by workcover if they didn't mate - end of story.
From the sounds of it, it would have been quite possible for stuff to be thrown down at them, which is unfortunately not an uncommon occurrence for construction sites, especially when school kids are going to be in the area, as they undoubtedly would have been.
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