Saturday 30th - Good progress everywhere

But first, a couple of pics from Friday afternoon at Toddington. I ploughed on with the Macaw, which is now all in undercoat dark grey:

On the next road Mark declared war on the South drawhook on the beer tank, which didn't fancy coming out. After some negotiation with some heat, it decided it would come out after all:

I also couldn't resist this photo from the platform at Toddington after dark, lit just by the lamp in the clock:

So Saturday, and first things first, the door team have an early morning meeting:

The Toad team were also early starters, The side planks are onto undercoat, Paul doing the honours here:

Maurice started off cleaning up more on the veranda, before later taking over from Paul on plank painting:

On Wednesday the drawgear had been taken out and was in display for all to see:

The pins were particularly impressive:

They've clearly led a tough life. Needless to say, new ones are being made!

A commenter was asking about the stove, here it is, one of today's tasks was to jack and pack it up a little so that the floor planks underneath could be replaced:

Underneath Andy was assessing the bolts for the vacuum cylinder:

While Ken was reassembling the cylinder itself:

Moving along one Tony and Bob mounted the spare buffer onto the Mink A:

Bob soon had it cleaned up and in undercoat:

Back to the door team on 16221, sometimes it's difficult to determine progress against activity, but there was certainly plenty of the latter:

 

The shunting team were back in action today too, first job was to move the "8th coaches" taken off the rakes to somewhere more convenient:

Then extract some spare bogies to use under the RBr:

Before extracting some more coaches from the next siding:

Not just shunting to watch, 4270 and Dinmore Manor were out today:

And late in the day the Cl.20 after some time out for maintenance was out and about on the last train:

I managed to miss Jenny and John when I went to find out how they were getting on, but there was evidence of plenty of activity on RBr chairs:

The stack of completed ones is growing:

Kevin was sorting through our "Endology" store here, making sure everything is in order:

Dave and I were on the DMU today, Dave with a concerted effort to tick off some more prep jobs:

While I worked out the positions for the lining out, as they differ form our standard Mk1s so our usual measuring jig couldn't be used:

After spending far too long trying to measure off windows and finding nothing lined up, a small addition to our existing jig was made so hopefully this should progress smoothly now.