Saturday 12th - Moving forward everywhere

 Another day with good progress all round. 

Starting off with the Tool vans, No.4 is on the last of the prep work, Maurice cleaned up most of the Malvern side underframe with the wire brush.

While Robert finished off most of the woodwork repairs, not much more to go now.

I spent a good proportion of the day going round with the epoxy primer giving most surfaces a second and third coat until I ran out. It'll be a while before we know if it was worth the money!

No progress on No.92 today, but Chris finished off the woodwork on the South end of the tank wagon in the barn.

Chris also got borrowed to help John and Stuart lower a bogie frame down onto a wheelset, this and another is destined to go under TSO 5042 when it comes in shortly.

Progress on the RBr then, the woodwork team continued in the saloon, Steve was on ceiling fittings.

Simon and Alan were fitting panelling in the North end.

Meanwhile Andy made a start reassembling some of the bits on the North end for the corridor connection.

John and Jenny continued their mission to plan out doing Mk2 seating for the DFR. Not having done a Mk2 before, new templates are required which are now being made, first in cardboard and then in wood.

Meanwhile Helen carried on with the Mk1 DFR seats.

Can't be many left to do now?

Outside Dave dodged the showers to carry on making the S&T coach a bit more presentable.

Also dodging the showers was the shunting team moving some coaches over to the other side of the yard amongst other things, and Paul and Dennis off to the third rake to have another go at curing a roof leak. 'L' plates on the shunter as Tony was training today under the supervision of Ian.

Later in the day the wooden ends for the tank wagon had been finished by Chris and it was over to the painting trestles where Dave soon had some primer on them.

And as one tank wagon nears completion, another begins. Our Grit-blaster contractor is coming this week, so the second creosote tank (note - it was never a milk tank, despite what's currently written on the side!) was shunted into position and a few bits of wood in the way were removed. Ian and Tony did the honours on the solebar bits while they were waiting for permission from the signalman to run round the GUV in the station.

Another shower and a rainbow as I packed up having removed the rotting solid timber sections on the ends.

Finally, a couple of photos from a Wednesday evening a week ago from Rich, carrying on with the chaired sleeper wagon at Todd.

Rich was loosening the bolts for the axle-guard bottom on the South end, this wheelset needs to be swapped out at some point.

2 for 1 here, I was needle-gunning out the chain pockets on the Cotswold side, while Mark was cutting out the rather ugly plate that had been welded on to access the vacuum cylinder in the past.

Having tested the brakes we don't actually need to remove anything but Mark wanted to do a better job on the access hatch to make it look a bit neater and blend in a bit better.