Not a large number in today, but a busy one with RBr 1675 being shunted out following the loading of more kitchen items. RMB 1876 is now on the jack road and the weed spraying wagon brought in to the Barn through road. The very heavy south corridor connection from 1876 has also been laid on stands ready for Ken to work on it.
Starting out in the yard with the Indoor Gang, Geoff and Alan were fixing the back of the south end door on SK 25451, another faded maroon coach which could go into crimson and cream livery.
Reattaching the leather strap.
Paul had been cleaning inside Rake 3. He joins Geoff and Alan as they watch 3850 come by with the Cheltenham train.
Arriving back outside the Barn a sit down to watch 47105 pass with the Broadway train.
Maurice continues working on the large sack truck, here painting red oxide on the cleaned up wheels.
The wood frame has been coated in dark grey undercoat.
Dave battles with a hinge.
Phil is repairing coach light controls.
Ken was busy on Wednesday with the completed connection wood support now in place at the south end of 1876. The three unpainted top sections will be removed for painting.
Vacuum system tests are being made on 1876 with the vacuum pump set in place.
John works in the location of the DA valve and vacuum cylinder.
The final bit of gala display goods are put away until next time. Richard II and Mike return the batteries with the LED and tungsten bulb comparison display to their container.
More progress with TSO 5023. Jeff undercoats the remaining length of gutter and top panel on the Cotswold side.
He then moved to the opposite side to top coat a window still in undercoat.
I got cracking with the initial flatting on the madder undercoat on the same side.
Phil got going with the grey MIO on the Malvern side of the roof. It will need two coats.
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On Tuesday I responded to David A's recent query connected to the Fawley Hill Museum:
My suggestion that it may have been the large O gauge layout in the Museum building was incorrect. Neil, a member of the FOWS, has kindly provided an interesting answer.
Holiday Haunts was a spectacular O-gauge exhibition
layout inspired by the main line past Dawlish and Teignmouth. No sidings or loops, just 2 running lines used to display a sequence of excellent O-gauge trains. Looking on the Internet, it was certainly at Fawley some years ago but clearly not there now. Still photos don't do it justice because it was VERY long. I did take some film of it at the Warley exhibition in both 2004 and 2006. The 2006 clips are longer and better but are very large files, far too large to send as an attachment.
I have attached one of the short clips from 2004 but it only shows one end of the layout as there were tunnels (think of Dawlish) and then there was another long stretch beyond them. As I recall the layout was retired from the exhibition circuit after the 2006 show.
The successor layout by the same group was called Dainton Bank and was based on the section of the main line beyond Newton Abbott. That had sidings for the banking locos.
