Saturday 19th - A Different View

It was a quiet day today, Dave was on holiday, and a few others either weren't in or had duties elsewhere on the railway.

Jenny and John were hard at it though, traipsing up and down the yard swapping out more seats in 4763, wondering why it had been parked closer to Toddington than Winchcombe. It seems an occupational hazard of being a blogger is a cry of "Ah, seeing as you're here..." and I got roped into loading the next batch of seats onto the trolley to take back to the workshops too. 

Ken and Andy were working on one of the bogies from underneath the CK,

And soon enough the bogie was up and one of the wheel sets was out. It looked a bit odd to have the CK on the jack road floating in mid-air and the through road relatively clear.

Chris and Steve were both working on the wood work for the north end vestibule of 34929 in the workshop, it looks like it's beginning to come together.

Out enjoying the last of the summer sun, Dave was nudging 4867 along out in the yard, applying some filler to the usual areas around the window frames. It always seems to take forever to get the surface finished, so it'll be great to have a head start on this aspect when this coach gets its turn.

Speaking of taking forever on surface prep... On to the RMB!

Where Pam and George were both finding areas that needed a little more attention that had been revealed on the application of undercoat. No rushing onto top-coating yet, still a bit more to do!

Meanwhile Richard got the hot air gun out to remove the transfers from the solebar ready for repainting.

I spent a pleasant morning playing sign-writer on another GWR poster board for Broadway:

One more coat of red then that's 2 of this style done. Out of shot to the right is an identical design in varnished wood, which will receive a fancier gold lettering shaded black with translucent shadow which should be fun.

Afterwards I joined in on some more rubbing down before swapping hats at lunchtime and popping up to Toddington for an afternoon TTI turn. Passing through Winchcombe we were greeted with the familiar sight, but from the other end of the telescope so to speak!

Hi Gang! What's that, "Get back here and do some work!"? Well, it's hardly a strenuous task at the moment, all the tickets are checked prior to boarding and we go straight through half the stations. There's not too much to do after the frenetic sanitising at Toddington except sit back and watch the countryside go by to the sound of Foremarke Hall.