Tuesday 27th - Getting on with the Job

9 in today by my count, and the end is finally in sight on CK 16221, well, on the bodywork prep side at least, the rest still has a long way to go!

Richard was applying what I think was the last of the secondary filler on the Cotswold side, while on the north end Maurice was cleaning up the pipework from all the cracked old paint:

On the Malvern side Bob was out with the scraper on one of the doors with some rough paintwork:

Later on Richard went round patch painting over the secondary filler.

I think as far as we're concerned most work left is now on the Malvern side, which was already in a much better state than the Cotswold side.

Robert came in on an extra day today to try and progress door 10 on BSo 34929. (The lowercase 'o' denoted "Semi-open" which is perhaps more appropriate now?) The morning was spent adjusting a door pillar (a phone torch is handy to spot the high points) which was done as far as possible before the door itself is fitted, while the afternoon was spent puzzling over capping strips:

Once again the un-squareness of this coach was causing consternation. I'm probably jinxing this but hopefully the CK will be easy for the door team after this by comparison.

Dave and Roger were on the TK 24006 (we realised it probably ought to be TK not SK with the early construction date) production line today, Roger sanding:

And Dave adding stain where necessary then varnishing:

Elsewhere, Kevin was sorting out the store in the changing room:

And Dave was upstairs continuing with the recovering of TSO 5042's seats, they're just over half way now:

Finally, I put the finishing touches on the first 3 of my A-boards for Winchcombe station:

Before taking them up and releasing them into the wild:

 In the couple of hours that the platform ticket one was displayed, the sold 5 apparently, excellent! More will be coming, along with a few other bits and pieces like replacing the various plastic leaflet holders etc. to try and tidy things up a little, small things just to finish off the excellent heritage atmosphere that Friends of Winchcombe cultivate here. Then there are other stations to contemplate...