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On 4 June the walls are getting higher. Note the English bond brickwork, with alternate rows of headers and stretchers. From outside this will replicate construction of a nine inch thick brick wall that would have been built in GWR days. However, modern building control means there has to be an insulated cavity wall, so the headers are half bricks. Note that some of the bricks against the door frame on the left are set in sand. This is to make them easy to remove in case the opening needs to be wider when the Swindon panel is pushed through this entrance.

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Didcot Railway Centre