{"id":10456,"date":"2024-02-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=438577170a5728d4bf3e0b3350ba708b"},"modified":"2024-02-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T14:00:00","slug":"saturday-10th-a-big-shunt-and-some-visible-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=10456","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 10th – A big shunt and some visible progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

 Another Saturday, another major pre-season carriage shunt to start getting the rakes in the right order for the new season, now just 3 weeks away.<\/p>\n

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03 plus carriages went to…<\/div>\n

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and fro…<\/div>\n

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There and back again…<\/div>\n
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I’m reliably informed it all went more or less to plan, which is not always a given!<\/div>\n

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At one point the yard was positively littered with coaches, but it all came together in the end.<\/div>\n
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Onto the RBr then and it felt like good progress was made today. I started off putting another end section into undercoat.<\/div>\n

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At the back Alan went round welding up any identified pinprick holes and grinding them down, while Tony finished off the last of the initial sanding.<\/div>\n

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It was good to have Pam back after an absence of leave. She got going on the door edges.<\/div>\n

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Inside it was all go too with Dave fitting insulation now that welding had finished on the lower parts, while Phil carried on with the electrics and lights.<\/div>\n
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Paul captured me making a start with the filler. There’s an awful lot of patches of metal to blend together, and I wanted to see what I could do with this first section.<\/div>\n

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End of the day and looking much better. Just another 110 ft of coach sides to go!<\/div>\n
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Maurice escaped the din of the paintshop with sanders blaring for a bit to treat the undersides of the SR\/GW van floor before fitting.<\/div>\n

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Robert cut some timber to fit the hole he made last week.<\/div>\n
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Drilling holes to fit while Maurice finishes off painting the underframe.<\/div>\n

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Wednesday evening Greg had done the Malvern side<\/div>\n

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This GWR milk tank, which by Saturday had been shunted ready to be collected on a low loader. It’s going on holiday for a bit to East Somerset Railway where they’re putting together a small milk train for a series of photo charters this year. Always pleased to support such endeavours.<\/div>\n

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On the Jjack road I think it was TSO 5042. whatever it was, John checked the ride height…<\/div>\n

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Before lifting it up to adjust springs and things assisted by Andy.<\/div>\n

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Upstairs work continues apace on the DFR Mk2 seats<\/div>\n

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This is the last lot left to do.<\/div>\n

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Not a huge amount of work going on with the FK in the workshop today, just Ken soldiering on with the end, her trial fitting one of the tank filler pipes.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 Another Saturday, another major pre-season carriage shunt to start getting the rakes in the right order for the new season, now just 3 weeks away.03 plus carriages went to…and fro…There and back again…I’m reliably informed it all went more …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t