Monday 22nd - Busy Day

 11 for Carriage Cleaning today. Very fortunate as it turned out there was a lot to do.

Neil had arranged for the rakes to be swapped over and moved down so that carriage A was on the platform and so could be washed.

So when I arrived Team Leader John was discussing with Paul and Tim what to do. Suffice to say it took them an hour to clean just this 1 carriage! It was the first time this year we had had the "A" coaches on the platform.

Now unfortunately our HoD had time on his hands recently and took a train ride! Here he noticed the window "cills" in "Mary" were a bit grubby. To be fair he did suggest it needed to be attended to in the winter shutdown, but I am old enough to take a hint! So I went prepared with sponge scrubber and washing up liquid just in case. With such a good turnout I was able to attend to the problem.

Before

After

One half done

And the state of the water

Ian is right that it needs to be done in shutdown, when the tables can be removed so the window can be accessed without having to do contortions, but I hope this is better for now.

While I did this David was helping Paul and Tim and inside were John, Nigel, Greg, Kath, Jane, Rich and Sarah. After David and Jane left I helped Paul and Tim wash the Malvern side of the maroon rake. Fortunately that was not so bad as the Chocolate and Cream set. Busy Day! 

And a little aside. Rich is a qualified First Aider so we went down to The Goods Shed to locate the defibrillator. When you need one it's no time to wonder where to find it!