Saturday 21st - A small delivery vehicle

 Another fairly quiet day with a few regulars missing, but still ploughing on with the usual work.

Before that though, not long after the first train went down, we heard a familiar rumble. Hullo, what's this? It seems the diesel department had had a delivery of some plywood that ended up at Winchcombe instead of Toddington, and it seems the best way they could think of to transport it the length 2.5 miles to Toddington was to bring down all 135 tons of the Cl.45 to come and collect it!

Anyway, we can't stand around watching trains all day (contrary to popular belief), there's stuff to do. Dave captured me flatting back the Cotswold side of SO 4790 ready for varnishing.

And later in the day, captured me doing a first coat on the first half.

Dave himself started off cleaning up the South end of dust ready for another coat.

At which point he handed over to George who made a very creditable effort with the gloss black.

I didn't have my camera ready first thing when Helen and Laura were doing their first job of the day which was to cut some new gaters for vacuum cylinder pistons, by the time I made it up again Helen was onto seats for 4798.

More foam please! Laura opens the next pack.

John's job today was the assembly of aforementioned gaters, we had almost completely run out, I think 10 were made up.

The RBr continues to creep forward, with the FK temporarily evicted in the barn, Ben returned to door work on 1675 instead.

In the servery Pam varnished the oak shelf restraints...

Before moving onto more painting in the corridor, both captured by Dave.

Stuart was absolutely delighted to be photographed for the blog :D working with Clive on getting some more vacuum cylinders together and ready.

Upstairs Jenny took on the task of giving the mess room an Autumn (?) clean. Looking at the before and after it certainly needed it!

SO 4798 was back on the through road and Alan carried on with the lower window surround metal work repairs. still a long way to go, but he's gradually working his way along.

Out in the sun again, when it was shining and not raining, Andy did a great job with all the curb rail offcuts from the Open C that Nick and Steve hacked off on Wednesday salvaging the sheet hooks for reuse. Weather permitting the frame is being grit-blasted this week.

There was a fair bit of activity on the Mica today but I managed to miss photographing much of it, all I got was Maurice taking the old Cotswold side door pillars off ready for new ones to be fitted.