Saturday 22nd - Focus on the RBr

Very much a concerted effort to progress the RBr today, partly due to contractors coming in to lay the floor in the saloon next week, and partly because we want to get it done and out!

Plenty of activity in the saloon, Robert and Chris doing a bit of woodworking on the left

Ian and Tony are fitting more radiator covers.

Further down Simon and Tom were on roof duty with the hardboard along the corridor.

The longitudinal roof strips were the other challenge for today, the gang contemplate the way forward.

Human acro-props was the answer! They got there in the end.

In the serving area Pam got the top coat out on the shelves.

Later in the day Dave was going round filling any holes to stop the levelling compound leaking when the lino is laid. You can also see the door threshold strips were fitted today by Ben who I missed in action, during the week he'd been cleaning them up ready.

Outside saw some activity too with Tony doing the chocolate brown undercoat on the Malvern side.

While in the workshop, Phil was working on some of the covers for the boxes below the solebar.

It wasn't all RBr work though. James was at the North end of the FK, first offering up the door with the hoist before welding in the steel body panel.

It was steel body panels for Alan too on the SO in the barn, around the windows this time. 

Alan welded, and John followed on to grind everything smooth.

Progress continues on the Mica, first thing I took the other Malvern side door pillar out, Paul and Maurice de-rusted the metal behind, and de-screwed the internal planks.

The first batch of planks have been stacked away for now and the second batch, for one of the ends, laid out for undercoating by Maurice.

Paul carried on with underframe undercoating. We are fast running out of jobs until the welding repairs can be effected - as seen above there is a lot of welding going on with coaches at the moment! Hopefully with Nick back off holiday soon there'll be a bit of spare capacity, then we can start putting some planks back on.

Steven has also been working from home on the heavy duty door frames, chunky stuff this!

On lighter matters John and Laura are well into the production flow of the SO/FO seats in GWR snapdragon.

More seats done, no doubt they'll be finished long before the rest of the coach!

Lastly Dave captured me doing a little bit more on the Cheltenham board, just a little explanatory note to sign-write then it's done.