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Green-fingered crossing keeper rewarded by Do It All
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Green-fingered crossing keeper rewarded by Do It All
Station of the Year award winner Eric Sadler has received another prize from DIY superstores Do It All and Shires Garden Buildings. Eric, who is Railtrack's crossing keeper at Worstead station, has spent a lot of time restoring and tending to the station, helped by his family and friends.
Kings Lynn Do It All customer service consultant John Smith read about Eric's awards in his local paper and noticed that he had pledged to spend his £250 prize money on a greenhouse, to grow even more plants for the station.
"Here was a chap", said John Smith, "doing something in his own free time to make people's lives happier and more colourful. So I thought staff at Do It All and at Shires Garden Buildings, our greenhouse supplier, would be glad to help him".
Shires, who are based in Wisbech, are giving Eric a smart hand-built cedar greenhouse worth over £1200. Up until now, Eric, aged 46, from Honing, Norfolk, has raised plants in his father's very small, old greenhouse. Last year he grew around 50 trays of plants from seed for the pots and hanging baskets at the station.
"I soon overwhelmed the old greenhouse", said Eric. "Last year we harvested over 100 bunches of grapes from the old vine in it as well, so this new greenhouse will give me much more scope.
"I'm very grateful both to Shires and and to Do It All, and I will be spending some of £250 at Do It All on seeds and plants for the station" he added.
Eric is regularly helped with the station upkeep and gardening by his wife Dorothy and children Yvette, 18, and Kevin, 15. Crossing keeper for 11 years since redundancy from a farm labouring job, Eric has won many prizes for the station. Not only has Eric decorated the station with a riot of colour from flowering plants, he has painted a decorative rug on the floor of the waiting room and flames leaping in the fireplace too!
Railnews Archive ::: 1997-03-19 RTK-001
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