Saturday 29th - Where'd Everybody Go?

 Everyone must have had bank holiday plans, as it was a bit quieter than normal in the works today. Clive, Andy and Bob were all on the trains as well, as was I Sunday morning, hence a little later than usual on the blog. As an aside it has been fantastic to see the railway looking so busy since we opened up journeys starting at Cheltenham and Broadway, almost feels like we're back to normal again!

So, to Saturday, and the first job was to do a quick shunt to swap some bogies round in the yard, and put the 2 dogfish over the pit:

The first train came past with P&O up front, Richard and Paul look on:

They were on the early shift, having done all the painting they could do on the Mink A they left to enjoy the rest of their bank holiday weekend:

Various door stops, clips and other bits and pieces in top coat. We're awaiting a new storage container to turn up before we order the timber for the wagon, hopefully it'll be with us soon.

Meanwhile with the dogfish on the pit, and Andy off the train and into overalls, he and Ian set to trying to get the doors to work a little better. Scrape the old gunge off the moving parts, apply new gunge...

Nick on the right there also popped in to discuss the metal repairs that need doing. We're under strict instructions not to even think about painting them, there simply isn't the time or money, But Ian did ask me to paint some numbers on them as it's a bit confusing at the moment, so I'll do that on Tuesday.

Dave ticked a few more jobs off the list, firstly coating the metalwork repairs that Nick and the team had done in red oxide:

A little filling and sanding will aid the final blending in. He then found some more bits of trim to clean up, I think for BSK 34929:

Speaking of the BSK, Phil was doing a grand job fitting out the toilet compartment, it's all coming together in here:

Robert and Ainsley were putting together another door frame in the woodwork shop, they look a bit puzzled here, I think they worked it out!

Outside in SK 24006 Dave was patiently rubbing down some more of the original veneer to restore it to its former glory:

While Rob was taking some more bits of trim off:

Other than watching trains go by:

And a trip up to Toddington to drum up some more station signwriting work :-) I was faffing around with masking tape painting up this chalkboard for the loco department:

I got there in the end, but some brands of tape didn't do what they were supposed to do!