Thursday 28th - A breezy cooler day

 Another very varied day and a breezy one with the heat of the past two days thankfully reducing.

[Photo : Alex]  Beginning on a very cheery note, Ian presents Dennis with his 15 Year certificate as a volunteer on the Railway. Congratulations Dennis!

It's a nice day, so straight outside to capture our team who look after Rakes 3 and 4. Paul and Dennis have a lot to do to get the rakes ready for the Diesel Gala in two weeks time. Paul waits .........

............... while Bob Mac sorts out the power for the rake.

Bob repairs some of the roof paintwork on SO 4790.

Now to look for the Indoor Gang. I was told they were in the Rake 4 coaches fixing loose heater grills.

Well I have found some tools.

And here's a mass of various sized screws, but no sign of the team. They appeared when I was on my way back to the Works.

I later captured Roger and Alan in the Workshop cutting lengths of angle iron to be used for making new brackets for the radiator grills.

 

[Photos: Roger]  Roger kindly saved me another walk up the yard and took photos of Geoff and Alan fixing a number of covers.

 

In the afternoon I photo'd Roger repairing a small section of underseat grill.

With vacuum pump connected, Stu and Alex check out the workings of the vacuum cylinders under TSO 5042.

With the linkage from the vacuum cylinder disconnected, Stu checks out the DA valve.

The improvements to the luggage compartment and guards corridor in BCK 21272 continue with Dave undercoating more of the grill ...........................

................... and Bob undercoating the ceiling. Still have the top coating to do, but it's all looking very much better now.The guards compartment could also do with freshening up.

Now a look at the laying of the marmoleum done in RBr 1675 on Wednesday. The saloon and part of the serving area below look a lot better.

Bob and son Pete are back and cutting out the thick paper templates, prior to cutting the relevant areas of marmoleum to shape.

The end of the day showing the corridor and south exit.

Jeff once again took over the painting in the servery and closet, continuing the first top coat of Executive Light grey.

The pipework will be boxed in.

The next job, second coating the electric cupboard door. David had applied the first top coat to this side on Wednesday.

Some further filler was required in two places on the top Malvern side panel. David had part remedied this the day before. Bob completed any further filling and sanding, and then undercoated the entire panel.

The second of the two calor gas boxes needed some modification at the front. With this done the door was subsequently repainted, and now Bob attaches the rubber seal.

Richards I and II have completed the extra electrical work on BCK 21272. Richard II now uses the smartphone app to change the name of the Victron Bluetooth battery charger to the coach type and number. This will help when accessing the charger to acquire all the required information.

[Photo : Alex]  After a shunt on the Malvern side of the yard, the former-GWR Open C wagon was extracted and will be the next wagon to restore after the MICA van. The first job will be to have it grit blasted.

Foremarke Hall rumbles past and into the station for the token exchange. There were some good numbers on the trains today.