Thursday 28th - Grab the opportunity!

A hard frost and bitterly cold start, but with the promise of another gloriously sunny day.

Well, somebody has to clear the Mess Room bin and take the recycling to the bins at the top of the station yard. 

With the interior of RBr 1675 rapidly coming together, time to sort out the doors.

Martin has applied filler to the outside face of the south connection door and now top coats one of the corridor sliding doors used for access to the kitchen and pantry. 

The door to the electrics cupboard has already been painted and awaits fitting by the Indoor Gang. Hopefully we can get the other doors completed and also ready for fitting by next Thursday.

"Oh no, not another photo of me lying on the floor!". Richard I connects the water filler pipework in the pantry.

 

I later caught Richard II also working in that area.

Back to Richard I winding insulation around the main water pipe.

Paul watches Alan, Roger, and Geoff, the Indoor Gang, continuing the fitting of the catches to the pelmets in the saloon. I think the job has now been completed.

Also in preparation are the handrails for the corridor, electrics cupboard and kitchen. These will all be painted in Executive Light Grey to match.

The Indoor Gang also loosely fitted the heating pipe covers.

Two photos taken by Roger on Tuesday of the ceiling repairs in SK 24949. The above still needs further work, while the repair below has been completed.

The frost covered station crossing and sleepers were carefully negotiated on my way down to put some varnish on the central passenger door on BSKD 34929 - a job that needed to be done as early as possible to allow the varnish repair to dry (when closing up at about 5 pm it had just about dried - fingers crossed!).

With always so much else to do and being a very weather dependent job, the three doors on the Model Railway coach had somewhat been pushed aside and remained unpainted when the rest of the coach had been done a year or so ago. With the promise of another lovely day it was time to make amends and get it completed. Maurice and I soon got the job done, and while at it also completed the repaint of the platform side of the north end. We just need to finish the lining out, when we have the time and when the weather is ok!

John and Stu were setting up the suspension on replacement bogies for SK 25488. The original bogies have tyres that need re-turning.

Job completed and the coach body lowered back down.

Maurice cleaning up the metal steps that fit to the ends of the MICA van and later priming them.

Rex  drilling holes in more internal window framing for SO 4798. This is a top section. 

Gerry was also working in 4798 but I somehow missed him

The painting of the child's bench was completed by Jeff.

We recently seem to have had an endless supply of paint trestle jobs. Both Maurice and Jeff get stuck into the spare footboards. We will probably just go to undercoating with these, leaving the final black glossing to when they are needed.

A fine winter's day. We could do with more of these.