Friday was a warm sunny day and that found Kath, John, Paul and myself to try and finish compounding then turtle waxing the rest of carriage 4614. The picture above shows the end result. The end panel has been left untouched. Mostly because there are so many lumps of bodywork lifting off we were afraid to touch it! However, it will serve as a useful "control" to see if the polishing lasts for an acceptable time. It is above John, to the right.
And here are Kath and Paul hard at work. I also did some between taking the photos! The combined ages of the team was 319 years!
And so to today. Hols and sickness over (but holidays resume next week!!) we had 13 today.
First up is Tim and Peter washing, and Kath making her way up to the shed to collect the tools. (Her last job was mopping Abigail/Charlotte with the posh new mops we have had provided recently.) Paul was behind the camera flushing the gutters before wetting the sides.
Inside were Greg, Rich and Lynn. With the good turnout Greg and Lynn were later able to go into rake 2 to clean lampshades.
Further up the train was Nick.
and Val
Getting ready to do toilets was John
Nigel was in the buffet car
Now we are in to October the timetable in the week is the Blue one, which is 1 steam and the DMU. So Rich, Nick, Roger C, Val and myself went down to clean that. Quite a lot of flies ended up in the vacuum cleaners! Here are Val and Roger C ( had to snap Roger when he wasn't aware I was there!)
Earlier I was in Abigail/Charlotte and although I have seen it every week this was the first time I actually noted the "ambulance window". This is an opening window put in to enable stretchers for wounded soldiers to be loaded. C&W had hoped to make it operable but all attempts to make it seal after opening were a failure, so it is fixed. I believe other heritage railways have had the same problem.
So that concluded a very productive couple of days for the cleaning/polishing team.
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