Saturday 10th - A quieter day

Well, not so quiet from the noise point of view, with plenty of bangs, grinding and sanding on and off throughout the day, but we had a few of the regular faces missing.

Beginning with the trains, the first one through was behind the heavy ex-GW 2-8-0T 4270, the enclosed cab making the engine very pleasant to work on during the cold weather. Our 6-coach train must feel like a feather to an engine that probably hauled lengthy coal trains in South Wales. It was withdrawn in 1962. The second train had "Foremarke Hall".

 

 

Moving back inside to the Woodwork Shop with Steve producing hardboard ceiling strips. 

Please note that the Woodwork Team have a special length of wood for propelling the last few feet of whatever is being cut through the saw. 

 

 

The strips were for the new length of ceiling panel that is replacing the damaged one in the central vestibule of RMB 1808. 

 

 

In the Workshop Chris is working on what will be the replacement south end door for the Malvern side of 1808. The previous one was scrapped as it was too badly corroded.

 

 

 

The new doorway pillar for the Malvern side south end of 1808.

 

 

 

Coach painting on 1808 was limited to Ainsley and myself. 

Ainsley adds a tiny bit of filler to something on the edge of this window frame that he doesn't like to leave, before continuing seond top coating the Malvern side windows.

 

 

 

 

 

I spent some of the day repairing another doorway threshold, before moving on to the north end of the coach to complete the painting done by Jeff on Thursday. All that remains at that end are the tare plate, lamp brackets, and buffer beam area. 

The filling and painting above the top of the south corridor connection on BSK 34929 was also completed, which in turn will enable Ken to mount the rain cover.

 

 

With 1808's centre ceiling repairs done, Steve moved back to 34929 to continue with the rebuild of the north end vestibule. Here he is offering up a new sheet of veneer plyboard.

Remaining on the wood theme, at the far end of the Paintshop, Pam has lightly sanded the internal window framing and is carefully adding another coat of varnish.

She later tackled the new strips on the right of the photo. We have no idea what these are for, but thankfully a note requesting varnishing was left and she could get on with the job.

We often have things left on our Paintshop trestles where no instruction has been left and it is not obvious what is to be done with them. In these situations the wisest thing is to leave them until we find out. If something were to be varnished when it should have been painted, not a problem. If the other way round - disaster!

 

Back to 16221's bogie, Ian is painting the extracted wheelset that had been cleaned and primed during the week.

 

 

Alan is doing some more wire brushing of the main frame. As stated in the previous report, we are doing a lot more with coach bogies now.

                                                                                                        

 

 

Ken, using another simple, but excellent tool (simply a yellow-painted circular block held in the vice), is able to produce some new brackets for supporting what will be the top of a toilet outpipe.

 

 

 

Ken produced four brackets which were subsequently primed with red oxide. They will be painted black.