Tuesday 11th - Concentrated effort

Today's efforts could be called a concentrated blitz after Ian's mini meetings to try and speed up the work on 1675. Almost everyone in was busy both inside and outside the coach and a lot of progress was made.

Beginning with Robert and Chris installing the oak ply panels inside the saloon.

Robert carefully trimming where needed.

Doing the same where the panel is to be fitted.

It's looking good.

On the opposite side Dave is fitting the hinged oak pelmets.

[Photo : Robert]  Respectively, the Malvern and Cotswold sides of the saloon at the end of the day.

[Photo : Robert]

Besides working in the saloon, Dave also fitted more window drainage pipes, again held tightly in place while the glue dried.    

Back to the corridor with Richard doing more sanding of the inner wall. Hopefully the ceiling and outer wall panels will soon be added. There will be a huge amount of painting to be done throughout here and on into the vestibule and electrics compartment.

Pam returned to the closet at the end of the servery where some filling was required. Robert has finished the main work here, but some beading will be added to finish off the corners.

I returned to the shelves to complete the sanding of the filling and begin adding the cream undercoat. 

A diagram taped to a wall in the kitchen area.

More progress on the Malvern side where earlier in the day Richard put on the lower line tape. We can now get on with the undercoating.

His next job was returning to the Cotswold side kitchen door, adding filler where required on the door frame. Ian was meanwhile working along the sole bar with the gloss black, so Richard refrained from any sanding.

Phil returned to his work on the Malvern side doors, finishing off any sanding and then adding light grey undercoat.

Another end of day photo of part of the Malvern side. 

Maurice and Tony worked on the two sliding doors that give access to the kitchen and pantry from the corridor. 

Tony also worked on the south connection door.

The connection door and one of the corridor sliders now nicely undercoated.

On now to the MICA van where Paul and Alex were servicing the axleboxes.

Paul cleaning up the thread on one of the bolts using an appropriate sized die.

Details of the MICA van on a board opposite the van, next to which .............

............ are details of what is coming in next.

Moving on to the trestle jobs. Starting with Pam's first job of the day which was to turn over the gauge mountings for the Dinmore Manor Group and add yet another coat of varnish.

Keith adds more madder undercoat to the emergency coupling from the guards compartment on BCK 21272. It will be top coated in red. Next to it is part of the communication cord mechanism from FK 13326.

Then on to the new planks for the bench at Hayles Halt with brown undercoat.

Time to visit Upholstery to see what else had been done on Saturday after I had photographed Laura and John making the first use of the new moquette. And another surprise was waiting. It looked as though this had been laid out specially - two armrests, a panel and a cushion.

Next to these was a cut section of moquette with a hessian back sewn on. I will visit Upholstery on Thursday and see what this had become. Looking at this now, you can begin to envisage how good the interior of 4798 will be when all the seating is completed and in place.

It was very pleasant to welcome Pat and Sally and give them a tour of the Works. Pat has been a member of C&W for a number of years now, but hasn't been able to attend since late last year, so it was good to see him back. He was particularly interested to see how FK 13326 had progressed as he was involved with the undercoating on both sides when the coach was in the Barn.