Thursday 22nd - Wet, very!

Another busy Thursday with a wide spread of activities.

As I was at Toddington for the morning, both Paul and Gerry took some photos, so many thanks both.

It was another day of "yellow warning of rain", and did it ever! Despite all this there was an occasional dry spell when our outdoor team today (Paul, Alan, Geoff and Roger) could get on with essential pre-season maintenance both on and inside the rakes.

[Photo : Paul]  The interior of RBr 1672. Paul washed windows and all the floors in Rake 1.

[Photo : Paul]   Hello, where's Roger off to? Back to the Works for more tools?

[Photo : Paul]  Geoff and Alan fixing a set of window sliders in BSO 9000.

[Photo : Paul]  Geoff advised me that one of the sliders needs painting. I hope we get the chance with the contrary weather and, with the new season almost upon us, Rakes 1 and 2 will soon be taken back to Toddington.

Geoff and Alan arriving back after a walk up to Rake 2 - the rain was back.

I think Paul escaped it having not had to walk so far.

Steven appeared just before I headed off to Toddington. When I got back I discovered he had repaired the Malvern side door off the GW/SR van. Maurice cleans up a plank that had been under one of the door hinges.

Later Maurice added more Flexacryl to the new section of roof canvas.

[Photo : Gerry]  Some more photos of the new frame for the lithium batteries for RBr 1675 that has been designed and fabricated by Rex. An excellent job!

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 Phil wiring up the normal battery box under 1675.

Jeff continues the lengthy job of sanding down the many bits of filler covering the window frame rivets.

On the opposite side Phil is etch priming the window frames where the filler sanding has been completed.

Moving into the Workshop to find Gerry cleaning up the metalwork inside the south vestibule of FK 13326.

Derek continues fitting the floor supports to the new top hat cross members in the south vestibule.

A rush job for me later in the day to get the north end of 13326 re-greened ready for Ken to fit the vertical supports for the corridor connection.

Jeff abandoned his sanding to get the  supports repainted.

Finally up at Toddington I spent the morning with Chris and Alan who were fitting a door to the new bar counter. The first coat of varnish was applied to the main section, initially the front and then a complete coating inside. The entire bar top, including the lift up section, was then treated with Danish oil (after the photo was taken). The remaining part where they were working will be varnished on Saturday, along with a second coat for the main part, and of course more Danish oil for the top sections.