Thursday 17th - From the very old to the very new
Following an unusually quiet Wednesday with a small number attending (holidays abound and of course no doubt there are grandparent duties with the schools off), we had a much busier Thursday with a good number in.
Beginning with Phil J. top coating the dismantled inserts from the south end of Creosote Tank wagon 43914.
Our gritblaster had returned on Wednesday to finish cleaning off the old paint and then prime the second tank wagon 43930. During the morning it was shunted next to 43914, presenting an excellent contrast of the "before and after".
Jumping to the very end of the working day, with Alex oiling up the Malvern side axleboxes.
The south end one was quite a trial to put back and it ended up with Alex having to remove the short tiebar from underneath.
An important job today was to remove TSO 5042 from the Main Rake to enable a steam leak to be fixed and exchange the bogies. With the coach detached from the rake on the train's return from Cheltenham, Stu has collected it and is taking it to the Barn jack road.
The replacement TSO 4763 had been extracted from the 3rd Rake and now sits coupled up to the 03 ready to be added to the Main Rake when the train returns.
Jeff looks up from his undercoating on the "MAIL" panel of the Model Railway TPO coach.
With the warm day drying the undercoat relatively quickly, Jeff was able to get on with some more filling within the central doorway.
The breeze was also blowing in the right direction, so no sanding dust was settling on Phil's black lining out on the "ROYAL" panel.
Over on the Usk Goods Office platform, Chris and Steven are carefully measuring up the MACAW wagon to see how many more floor planks are needed.
A little later on Steven is back in the Woodwork shop preparing more planks, in addition to the pile photographed in Tuesday's posting.
More outside working with Derek back on the north end of the Monster Van. He will be kept busy for some time on this vehicle as there are a number of areas that need serious attention.
Dave was also making the most of the good weather with more green primer being added to the Cotswold side of SO 4806 (S&T's Workshop and Mess Room).
Earlier in the day Dave was taking two underseat radiators to TK 24006. He had obtained these LMS designed ones from the SVR the day before, and were the correct ones for the 1951-built coach co-owned by him and Robert W.
On to 3rd Rake repairs and cleaning. Alan lightly sands the grill from the toilet compartment in SK 24949 which is currently undergoing repairs following the damage caused by the roof leak.
He had also sanded the window framing, which I later revarnished. The handrail is hanging on the nearby hooks. They will be given a second coat of varnish on Saturday.
An earlier photo of Alan repairing one section of the window frame.
More battens have been added to the compartment outer wall for the panelling when it goes back in.
Bob M's repainting of the side of 24949's roof is a big improvement.
More internal repairs underway in 24949.
Dennis is busy cleaning inside the enlarged 10-seat compartment in BCK 21092.
Further down the rake Paul cleans the floor in RMB 1808.
On now to activities concerning RBr 1675, with another cleaned up window needing some more work ...........
................... which Bryan later tackles.
Gerry cleans up one of the sections of gutter that had been removed from 1675 to enable repairs to the bodyside cantrail.
Martin undercoats 1675's new seating compartment ceiling panels that Pam had previously primed on Tuesday.
It was more electrical installation in the roof of 1675 for both Phil S. ......................
................. and Richard I.
One day all this will be replaced with tea, coffee, bacon baps, crisps, biscuits, cakes, Rail Ale, Track Cider ..................
The following four photos are of a temporary, full-scale mock-up created by Richard II of the 24V control panel layout needed for RBr 1675.
The plan and the individual units involved
The front and back views of the construct on a piece of plyboard.
There were two reasons for doing this: 1) to ensure the staff of RCS can agree the layout is logical and what they need, and 2) to confirm all components will fit in the panel enclosure selected. When approved, a steel enclosure will be procured and the components fitted and wired up. [Thank you Richard for the information].
Catching up with Upholstery's activities, new templates and plyboard sections are being created to cater for the Mk 2 seating that is being done under the second contract from the DFR.
The small seat units, so different from our Mk 1 seating. The rebuild is underway.
This has to one of our seat backs being refurbished.
The Dark Grey undercoat begins to go on the Cotswold side of Tool Van 4.
Martin is joined by Bob K. The van looked quite different by late afternoon.
Alex had been guard on the DMU during the morning, but scurried back to the Works as soon as his shift was over. He makes a start on priming the Malvern side of No. 4.
Phil J. adds a second coat of black to the water pump used during the demonstrations put on by our staff during the School Evacuation Experience days.
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