Mixed weather on site today with it starting off dry but with a couple of heavy downpours around lunchtime and afterwards. A good number of people were on site, allowing progress on various tasks. The team carried out a further modification to pointset no. 15, but unfortunately it had no effect, so fitting an additional checkrail now appears to be the next step.
Work continued on the Dough wagon, where it was discovered that removing the rotten corner stanchion required taking off the main roof framing. After some effort, the roof frame was removed and several team members helped lever the stanchion out of its socket on the wagon frame. From here on, the hope is that reassembly can begin rather than further dismantling.
Two team members cleaned and painted the fourth column for the shed 83D phase‑two frame, while others began drilling the new fixing holes in the frame side rails. Once completed, they managed to drill a couple of fixing holes in the already‑erected column before the heavy rain arrived.
The team them finished the red‑oxide coating on the bufferstop unit in 83A and then began cleaning the brass instruction panels on the static display compressor unit, which turns out to have been constructed in 1942 and work continued on the Wickham trolley project. Plus we operated a passenger train today for a visiting group of 23 people from a Classic Car club.
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