Wednesday 19th - 'The things you can do with welding gas'.

 Having obtained a Argolight gas cylinder, things got under way today. Door skins are a challenge, however this one is beginning to look a bit more like it should.

Bob happily scraping away old paint on a Malvern side, door of 16221. Not a glamorous job but nevertheless essential.

Kevin is cleaning a rather rusty tie bar.

John H spent all morning cleaning all manner of rust and old paint from this axle, it will be painted and look like new.

 I would have provided photos from the upholstery team, they were there ..... riding the train! Thoroughly deserved for such a hard working team.

We are well under way with the DMU repair, the owning group asked if we had time to fix a hinge on the guard door. It looked a bit daunting but Rex went in, said the door must come off ..... Phil suggested removing the hinge pins and a few minutes later it was off.

Rex is here just prior to removing the door, he has made a new frame for the hinge which will all go back next week  ...... I will do the photos.

The front of the DMU is a challenging shape, Gerry is using cardboard as a template for the last piece of the jigsaw.

Its coming together, with just one more plate to go in, hand rail back on and some tidying up. Hopefully a coat of red oxide and then back to the owning group for the final bit of TLC.

Not many of us in this week, but we made some excellent progress ...... to be continued.