Tuesday 18th - Clearing up

Initially a small number attending, but later boosted by members of the Woodwork and Door teams who were being trained/retrained in the use of the various machines in their shop.

 Taken through the door window (hence the crossed wires!) so as not to disturb the session. 

Quite a bit of effort was spent progressing BSK 34929. In the guards compartment Maurice initially sanded the ceiling and then applied the white undercoat. This was later followed up by more top coating of the walls.

 The new disabled compartment was vacuumed and tidied up with the newly varnished seat tops put in place ready for attachment. The table legs had already been varnished but were sanded and given a second coat by Richard.

 The undersides of the table tops had only been partially varnished, so the centre bare sections were given an initial coating. 

 One of the early jobs of the day was to clear out the compartments in 34929 as far as possible of all the bits that had been stored in them. Amongst the many things were wall attachments for the toilet compartment as well as the receptacle for the fire extinguisher. All were thoroughly sanded down by Alan ready for revarnishing or coating in Silver Hammerite accordingly. In the Barn, Richard continued the cleaning up of the many doorway capping strips, which I also assisted with (sorry, no photo).

After the course had finished both Rod and Ainsley stayed on to do some more work on the two doors from 34929 that are currently being rebuilt. Rod is securing the drainage channel at the base of one of the doors.

 Ainsley finished the day with a spot of vacuuming in the Door Team area.

 Roger was similarly vacuuming the Malvern side of the Workshop, having had a very good day finishing off the filling and sanding of the south half of this side of 16221. This is now ready for greying up.

More progress with SK 24006 with Phil sanding down some of the beading that had been removed from the south compartments. These will be revarnished.

 In the Upholstery shop, having completed its rebuildm Dave stores another of the seats for TSO 5042.

Today was the start of the new timetable with two trains running and passengers now able to get on at Cheltenham and Broadway, as well as Toddington. Pre-booking is still advisable to secure a seat but restoring the two ends of the line for beginning and ending the journey will allow a lot more flexibility.