Thank you for the kind compliments at the end of Tuesday's post. It's good to know that the blog is enjoyed by many. It makes it all well worth while, as well of course as providing a record of our activities. In the office I keep a back up of all the photos I have taken since September 2011 when Peter Bennett first set up a C & W blog. Including photos contributed by other members of C & W, the total is in excess of 28000 (over 8 GBytes).
Wednesday
This part actually comprises a selection of photos taken by Gerry for Wednesdays 8th, 15th and 22nd October. The photos are not in date order.
Chris, Ceri, Laura and Eve busy stripping DMU seats from the NYMR.
Nick, Trevor and Bob working on the large warflat wagon which has been repositioned on the road siding alongside the Barn.
Simon working on the vestibule entrance floor at the north end of RMB 1876.
Ken working on parts of the passcom mechanism from SO 4798.
Russ sanding an internal window frame in 4798.
Ben in the reconstructed Malvern side toilet compartment in 4798 - not sure what he is doing. Another job for the Painting and Prep team will be to apply several coats of varnish to the walls and window frame in here.
The grid doors for the weed spraying wagon have been fabricated and fitted by Bryan, Rex, (and Gerry).
Ben priming the underframe.
A general view of the Workshop from the mezzanine.
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Thursday
Stu had a number of shunts to do during the day, one of which was to remove the GUV and replace it with the Mink D van. This not only gets the van into the dry but clears what will be the viewing area during the weekend's gala. The bogies originally under the GUV and destined for SO 4798 are in the foreground.
Maurice continues the black glossing of the weed spraying wagon underframe.
[Photo : Paul W.] Roger, our Works H & S head, doing his weekly safety inspection. The new deck of the weed spraying wagon provides a handy table.
[Photo : Paul W.] Richards I and II working out how they are going to put the power on to the split coach sets - the gala rakes 3 and 4.
Meanwhile Alan and Geoff (Indoor Gang) were intending to replace some more seat side panels in SK 25488, running in Rake 2, but there were too many passengers.
On to RMB 1876 with Ainsley back on windows, finishing off the greying up.
Richard concentrated on patch painting the sanded areas of secondary filling on the south half of the Cotswold side.
Phil was back to roof painting.
Back to Richard who is progressing well. The edges of the centre door will be next.
Jeff was at the north end of the Malvern side.
Apologies for the excess of photos for RMB 1876 but a lot of gala preparation was done in the Paintshop and as such activities on the coach were easy to capture.
Richards I and II are real sports, happily setting up the light comparison display for the fourth time this year. A quick test and it works a treat.
Thankfully the predicted bad weather didn't hit us anything like that predicted, so I was able to get a lot of the outside gala bits set up, and of course almost all of the internal bits ready for the Saturday opening.
Stu had moved the container opposite S & T's old area. Rose now rakes over the whole area. It means a longer barrier to set up for the gala, but it's all a lot neater and part of the planned reorganisation of the front yard area.
And how is the greenhouse coming on? Pretty good actually, no wonder Rose looks happy.
The violets in particular have a lovely smell.
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