Saturday 28th - Another day another coach

 It's that time of the year when it becomes very difficult to keep track of coaches coming and going in the barn.

First off, TSO 4614 went for a trundle round the yard to settle back onto its bogies with nice newly turned tyres:

Then the next one was brought in, TSO 4763:

Another steam leak for John and Andy to look at was the purpose for the visit:

It was also a shorter walk for Dave to carry on smartening up the side panels below the tables inside:

On the adjacent road was BSO 9000 for some attention to its doors:

Ben (above) and Chris (below) took a door each

Our major project RBr 1675 made good progress too today, with the woodwork team fitting more timber floor components:

And the South end corridor connection being refitted by Ken and Andy:

Dave captured the crucial moment, a bit later it was on:

It's down to finishing touches on CK 16221 and David is making up the wooden picture frames that embellish the first class compartments:

Meanwhile Robert is making great progress on timberwork for the Mogo with one of the large end doors completed today:

On the wagon itself, Maurice and Paul have made great strides in priming the frame, the vast majority is now in green and some was even going undercoat grey:

Paul took a couple of pics to show progress at the end of the day:

The upholstery team were continuing with their luggage rack netting project today, fitting the newly 'knitted' nets to the frame:

Jenny shows the old netting being replaced - very grubby and with a few too many holes (or should that be too few - any topologists reading!?):

One rack all completed looking much better:

Something a bit different, not C&W work, Michael was working on a new system to track our trains integrating with the signalling systems and track circuits:

 I'm afraid it's a bit too technical for me, but I think it should help DOOs to have a better grasp of the situation during galas for instance when there's a huge amount of operational complexity.

And lastly my excuse for the slightly late publication, this weekend was the GCR's winter steam gala, always worth a visit. Didn't bother with many photos, but naturally the mixed goods train (one of two goods sets they had running, the other being the windcutters) had to be closely inspected:

The guys at Quorn are putting together quite a collection of tanker wagons, which were looking rather smart:

We do have a few tanker wagons ourselves and some of them would probably be fairly quick wins, something to think about...