Saturday 24th - Time's up

 Well that's it, effectively the end of winter maintenance. On Thursday the rakes go up to Toddington ready for the new operating season to begin next Saturday.

It was a bright but cold day for the final bit of shunting.

The last couple of coaches get added.

That was all done before lunch, so the shunting team got some wagons out for a little play with the train set. :-) Not really, but putting them in the order we want them for when they go up to Toddington, probably early April now. The opportunity was taken for a picture of all four wagons in bright sunlight.

Inside it was another noisy day in the paintshop with bad sanders buzzing away most of the day. Tony focused on the Cotswold side in a few areas...

Pam and Bob were on the Malvern side. I joined in too.

David continued the production line of window frame bits, here gluing and clamping curved sections to shape.

Phil and Simon continued the fitting of wiring and woodwork respectively in the kitchen area.

Upstairs it was all systems go in upholstery

Just 10 more seats to go for this Mk2 job for the DFR.

Nick was in doing some overtime welding up the South end of the FK.

And Robert spent the morning making some new door thresholds for the coach.

James and Andy were on pipework fitting on the North end.

Ben was de-gunging door lock bits for spares.

And John was back making door receiver plates as we don't have any spares of those.

The SR/GW van is coming on well, Maurice undercoated the renewed door.

By the afternoon we'd put most of the floor in position. They're quite heavy boards, and Robert captured me testing the floor after some heavy lifting!

It didn't take Maurice and I long to drill some holes and bolt it all down. Just one small section to fit behind me now which Robert measured up and cut.

Finally for today Dave sent in this picture of the bar at Toddington which he spent the morning varnishing - it's looking good now!