Thursday 3rd - Here, there and everywhere

Yes it really was "Here, there and everywhere" (with apologies to the Beatles, of course) with a lot of walking around the whole site to locate everyone.

However to begin with BSK 34929 and more good progress by the Door and Woodwork Team.

A second trial fitting of the Cotswold side north end door to recheck the hinge locations, was followed by lengthy spells of drilling out the screw holes in the new metal panelling. Robert begins with the bottom hinge location. The little notes by several of the doors around the coach are mine, to indicate where the cleaned-up capping strips can be found.

Later in the day the gibbet hoist was back in place and the door located on its newly fitted hinges.

Earlier in the day Ainsley and Rod are sorting out the lock fitting on Door 9 from the BSK.

Later on Rod is back on Door 8, sorting out the wooden backing components.

On the other bench Phil S. lends a hand with David and Des looking on.

Our woodworking team have completed their fitting out in the toilet compartment in the BSK. Phil now continues with reinstating everything else. The varnishing of the window and wood beading is half done.

In the Workshop Derek is preparing the wall panels for the south end toilet compartment in CK 16221. Here he is clamping the length of wood to act as a straight edge so that the line for cutting can be accurately made.

One of the new panel sheets in place. This has been cut to size to ensure that the join in the panels does not cross the toilet filler tank, very important with respect to the beading when that is nailed on!

Up on the mezzanine Richard I (on his own with Richard II away) is setting up more LEDs for the carriage lamps.

Two of the lamps are destined for BSK 34929, one of which has been indicated as "complete".

John services our carriage jacks, having spent some time having another go at freeing up a sticking door on one of the two Dogfish ballast wagons.

The new steps for the Dogfish, that were made for Bryan the day before and he specially "drilled to fit, were initally primed. In the warmth of the day they dried so quickly that the dark grey undercoat was able to be added later on. With each board having a unique location their positions on the two wagons have been preserved!

Now the wander about the yard, with the first stop being the guards compartment in BG 81049 (PWay's Mess Coach). Bob had not long top coated the ceiling and was now undercoating the cleaned up walls and everything else previously painted in cream top coat. 

Then over to the 3rd Rake siding where Paul was doing more vacuuming in the currently redundant Main Rake open coaches.

Lunch time with 4270 returning from Cheltenham with the second train of the day.

This is the life! A nice lunch, with added sausage rolls and doughnuts from Paul, biscuits from Ainsley (whose birthday it was the day before), and the joy of watching the trains go by on a lovely sunny day. What more could we ask for!

Lunch time is over, but before returning to work we have to watch P&O go by on its second run to Cheltenham. Lots more passengers on the trains again, which is very heartening to see.

 I had missed Dennis doing the job, but he showed me where he had coated the Cotswold windows in RMB 1876 with Windowlene to protect the upholstery from being faded by sunlight. This basically completes this very worthwhile job on our Winchcombe based operational coaches. As stated previously, because of their position in the yard, the Cotswold side of all our coaches at Winchcombe are "hit" by the sun from dawn to dusk, hence the problem with fading - what we term the "Winchcombe Effect". 

Then over to see Alan back in TSO 4867, who had been busy tapping more window frames in preparation for adding the sections of inner window framing

A significant number of windows have now been treated, an excellent job!

Neither David H nor Robert W, who jointly own SK 24006, were in today. However Phil B., who has been working with them, found some more beading that needed sanding down. A considerable amount of stuff has now been stripped out of the four south compartments, either for cleaning up or storage in the north part of the coach.

Finally, apologies to Steve B., who had been working on the second man's door on DMU 51306. I must have walked past him quite a few times during the day and didn't take a photo. That will definitely be done on the next occasion.