Saturday 23rd - A very varied day
Another fun packed day at the Works with the usual range of things covered and at times not without its frustrations. However a lot was achieved, which is the main thing.
Thanks to Robert for two of today's photos and once again to Rose from FOWS for baking us some more delicious cakes. There's no such thing as weight watchers in C&W with all the goodies regularly available in our Mess Room.
Starting today with Jenny doing a great job cleaning inside TSO 5023. We are not far from finishing the repaint so a good time to get the inside done.
Vic cleaning up another vacuum cylinder. There is a real programme of cylinder refurbishment now, with coaches, as they arrive in the Works, giving up their existing cylinders and receiving serviced and repainted ones in their place.
I missed Andy working, instead catching him wrapping up the angle grinder lead. I presume he had been working with James on 4798.
In Upholstery Laura has a good sweep around the workshop, in turn making it nice and tidy for the next Lifting The Curtain tour, which I was soon due to take round the Works.
The tour begins with a general introduction in the lobby and then proceeds upstairs to Upholstery, where I hand over to Laura. She always gives an interesting talk on our general upholstering and then the current projects, including the commissions (we now have a contract from the NYMR). Tours around C&W are usually about an hour, and such is the interest in Upholstery that we can easily spend almost a third of the allocated time there.
In the foreground Laura has laid out a line of FODR seats showing, from right to left, the process from a seat as received, through the stripping, the new underlayer, and (out of sight) the eventual re-covering with the new moquette.
Next into Woodwork where Robert describes some of the items prepared for SO 4798. After another general talk on what we do and a mention of some of the more major projects done by the Woodwork team, the tour moves to the Paintshop, and then the Workshop and Barn, and finally along the yard road back to the Main entrance where the visit to C&W ends
We are now well into painting the lines on the Cotswold side of TSO 5023. Bob marks the dividing line between the gold and black bands, before adding the yellow Tesa masking tape.
Bob has marked out and taped up some of the upper line, and now begins painting the black band on the corner and door at the south end.
Alex had turned up later in the day. With his intentions completed, he finished his day by gladly helping with the lining out, beginning the gold band painting.
[Photo : Robert] The completed Malvern side, now awaiting varnishing.