Tuesday 26th - Better out than in on another beautiful day

Beginning today with a series of photos from Paul E. and the progress with the Toad Brake Van

Stu, Maurice and Paul on one of the station's benches - what better place to enjoy the mid-morning break (guess one of the station staff took the photo)

Stu cleaning up more of the Malvern side upper framework

Maurice working in the north veranda.

The Cotswold side is looking good.

Later in the day and the dark grey undercoat is being applied to the grab rails on the Malvern side

The Malvern side - view of the interior.

The upper half of the vacuum cylinder now undercoated.

The new cabin planking in dark grey undercoat, with more on the right in wood primer.

Thank you Paul for the extra photos

******************************************

Now on to my own photos from the day

Taken earlier in the day, Paul undercoats the primed planking for the Toad cabin.

The Gunpowder van main painting is almost completed. Ian checks to make sure he hasn't missed anywhere with his final painting of the underframe.

Phil completes the top coating of the Malvern side of the roof. He later tidied up parts of the Cotswold side.

The Malvern side now looking very good. Phil later enjoyed what we all like doing - highlighting the lettering on the cast iron notice. Alex's signwriting looks good - just the big red cross, and remaining lettering to do on this side and at both ends.

Another concentrated effort on the Bubblecar with, at times, four of us busy with the seemingly endless preparation. Most of the effort now involves sanding the door frames, and door edges and backs to remove/ease out chipped and cratered paint. Richard sands down some filler on the bodyside.

Roger works on one of the door frames. Ian and I were doing the same on both sides. Hopefully we should be soon undercoating.

Keith had a variety of painting jobs, initially the little notice board plaques in pink and yellow, and then the two new headboards, all related to the signwriting work Alex is doing.

A large pile of freshly cut skirting board for CK 16221 awaited us. The edges had to be sanded first to remove the splinters and roughness. Keith was then able to get on with the priming. The backs of these were primed by David A. the next day.

Alan tackled another of the first class compartment luggage racks from CK 16221. It's amazing how these come back up with some good brushing and rubbing with soft wire wool.

Bob enjoys the sunshine while priming the cleaned up Cotswold side of the roof of SK 25341.

Michael, another member of C&W, with his signalman's "hat" on today. He is also a guard, TTI and trainee duty officer. My request for a photo has him in the "I see no ~~ships~~ train" pose.