Tuesday 6th - a day with a difference

While Tuesday is traditionally the Painting Team day, and we has just six from the team in again, other planned activities were also very much to the fore.

 

With Neil driving the 03 and Tony, one of our C&W shunters in attendance, the plan was to get CK 16221 onto bogies and back on to the through road. With one of 16221's bogies undergoing maintenance in the Workshop, its other bogie was shunted out. 

John now lowers 16221 leaving just enough room to wheel in the bogies - a spare was used to replace the one in the Workshop.

 

 

With one bogie now in place, it's heave-ho with the second one. Great scrum training!

 

A little forward-a-bit, back-a-bit to get the centre pin under the coach body in line with the hole in the bogie centre. The body was then very carefully lowered, all the time checking the lining up for both bogies. Once matched up the lowering was completed.

 

The CK was then shunted out and placed on the through road. In its place on the jack road is RMB 1876, which has been brought in to resolve a steam leak.

 

 

With 16221 back in place Bob was back to second top coating the roof. 

With the priority to get this coach done now raised, the Painting Team need to get back to finishing off any filling and getting the body sides greyed-up as far as possible.

 

 

16221's bogie in the Workshop, with the south end now hoisted up and the wheelset removed. Just prior to the shunt John and Tony are discussing what is being done for the maintenance.

 

 

Tony later worked on the wheelset using a powered wire brush and then priming the cleaned metal.

 

 

 

 

For quite some time now Kevin has been doing a brilliant job sorting out our stores, complete with clear labelling. Normally coming in on Saturdays, it was nice to see him in today.

 

Quietly working in Upholstery, Dave was stripping down another seat base.

By now, our traditional shot of the day's trains, just the one running today as it was the Blue Timetable. Please excuse the indulgence, but these are more important than ever now to bring in much needed funds to enable us to keep going.

 

Our signalman today was none other than John McMillan who is also Head of C&W's Cleaning Team. 

 

 

Back into the Paintshop and RMB 1808. Inside the coach Russ has been working in the counter area but a little extra job was using the floor paint to cover some small paint spillages. 

 

At the south end Roger resumed the work he had started a while ago. The tare plate was replaced, though requiring some rawl plugs to re-secure it. Here he is tightening up the electical connector base.

 

He then spent the rest of the day completing the black glossing of the south end. The rusted part of the connection was also cleaned up and coated in oxide. This will also be glossed, leaving the lower section as that is greasy. Normally the RMB would be positioned within the rake, but in the current situation it could well be placed at either end, so it would be nice not to have rusty connections amongst all the gleaming new paint. It also looks better when we take the initial photos of the finished coach.

 

 

At the other end Alan was sanding down more filler that had been applied on Saturday. Still some more sanding to do before we can apply another coat of dark grey.

 

 

On the Cotswold side Maurice completed the second top coating of the window frames, and then moved on to two of the doors, where the edges and inner frames needed a little more top coat. 

 

 

 

On the Malvern side Ainsley gave initial topcoating to large areas of cream panelling. Just the two end areas and the lower panels remain to have the first top coat.

Besides all my usual running around, I was able to complete the tidying up of the area around the top of the south end corridor connection on BSK 34929. With a subsequenr covering of Dark Grey undercoat, the "mess" looked a lot better. On Thursday, with the exception of the mechanism, this will be black glossed.