Saturday 4th - Next!

 A pretty quiet day in the works with several regulars off on holiday. But that didn't stop us cracking on with 1876 and digging the next project out...

Starting off with the RMB though, more filling and sanding. Jeff was on the Malvern side...

Tony and I on the Cotswold side. I had hoped to get my section ready for greying up by close of play but kept finding more bits to dig out.

Robert was repairing various bits of door panelling for the coach, gluing and clamping.

Chris had cut some new ceiling panels which Paul duly primed.

Peter was doing some very technical work with the sewing machine, but where's Jane, isn't someone starting on the mountain of NYMR DMU seats?

Ah, there she is! The padding foam is just turning to powder as the seats are disassembled, so the outdoor undercover workbench is the best place for this messy work.

Maurice had a good day on the weedkilling wagon, this end was all wire brushed and by the end of the day painted in primer. Not much left to do on this in terms of de-rusting/priming. Yes there is a colour scheme planned for it, that shall have to wait though... (and I need to tell Dave what colours to order!)

John was back on gater making duty when I stopped by, although he was also progressing brake pins for the Open C - the old ones are ok for now hence ok to run but could do with replacing.

The vacuum pipe connecting the train pipe to the pass comm system on 4798 was also being installed today by Ken and John.

Into the barn and Alan is progressing 35308's steel repairs on the North end.

Ian and Clive were on shunting duty today, with a few jobs on the list. First was to swap the RBR and the Santa coach + Fruit C around in the bay platform ready for the Santa team to start getting things ready.

Second was to bring in a stack of bogies for John to start looking at. I assume Some wheel swapping will be taking place as there was a defined order these all had to be in.

Third was a pretty please, can you extract our next wagon project? Why is the one I want always at the back?

But here it is, GWR Mink D 28833. This ran in the demo goods train up until about 2017 and isn't in all that bad a shape.

Almost all of the fixed planking is in good condition, so we'll just strip the paint off and go again. The roof timber is good too so just a recanvas. The biggest job will be new doors all round, as they are pretty rotten. Just a small step today, moving from the back of the back siding to the front of the middle siding on the other side of the yard, but it's all progress.