{"id":5915,"date":"2023-12-18T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=6788d56640178f420569d3a0c6b0361b"},"modified":"2023-12-18T03:32:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T17:32:00","slug":"saturday-16th-new-wagon-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=5915","title":{"rendered":"Saturday 16th – New wagon please!"},"content":{"rendered":"

 Starting off on Friday, when I popped in to swap wagons round with Stuart. With Tool van No.92 complete, we were chomping at the bit to get the second tank wagon in.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t get a chance to take many photos as it’s best to concentrate on one thing when you’re shunting, but we did stop to take a couple of photos of 92 before we temporarily moved it into the back siding out of the way.<\/div>\n
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And the sunny side. All the sanding of the old paintwork well worth it in the end, a good final result.<\/div>\n
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And the next in, the second DD3 GWR tank wagon 43930. It was grit-blasted and spray-primed in the summer, but we’ve been messing around with tool vans since then. A little surface rust had developed in the meantime, but that shouldn’t take too long to address.<\/div>\n
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Also of note was that earlier in the morning the P’way train had moved siding, it’s now positioned in the P’way yard (what a novel idea!) and helps hide the inevitable untidiness behind. The other potential positive is it frees up siding space to have the demo goods train formed up on a more permanent basis…<\/div>\n
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So on to Saturday and Maurice was soon off the starting blocks taking off the surface rust.<\/div>\n

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By the end of the day a fair bit had been patch primed and a bit more of the solebar had been undercoated, a job I had started on it outside in the summer.<\/div>\n
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Just as a reminder this is the aimed for livery, white with red lettering and a dark red band. It would have carried some sort of lubricating oil for the loco department in all probability.<\/div>\n

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The RBr returned to its place in the workshop after the shunt, still plenty do do on this. Robert was using a sheet of paper to check for binding spots on the emergency door on the Cotswold side.<\/div>\n

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Phil was fitting the electrical bits on the end.<\/div>\n

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And Chris was looking at foot boards.<\/div>\n

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Inside Dave and Pam were sanding some of the kitchen panelling in preparation for contractors coming in to install some new proprietary panels.<\/div>\n

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Ian and Stuart in discussion over the next phase in here.<\/div>\n

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Just Alan on FK 13326 today, grinding…<\/div>\n
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…And welding on the South end, where one of the floor bearers has had to be replaced. Luckily Alan worked out a way of safely doing this without either having to rip the toilet out or risk setting everything on fire.<\/div>\n

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More shunting today, FK 13329 came off the jack road having had its steam leaks repaired.<\/div>\n

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And in came FK 13337 which is having a temporary bogie swap. The dirty gang unhook the brake rigging underneath before lifting the coach up.<\/div>\n

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Soon after and the bogies were gone.<\/div>\n

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A bit more shuffling later.<\/div>\n

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On FK 13329 now outside, Paul and Dennis investigated some faulty plumbing.<\/div>\n

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Santa trains are always a good opportunity to ‘borrow’ a steam loco to do some steam heat tests. We’ve made some good improvements on rake 1, but not had much of a chance to assess the state of play in rake 3. 5526 did the honours and hooked up.<\/div>\n

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Yup, there’s one! John and Andy worked their way along and identified what needs sorting.<\/div>\n

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Back inside, I spent the morning lettering and numbering the NYMR SK, very nearly there with this one now.<\/div>\n

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The DFR contract continues, with another batch of Mk2 seating sent off and swapped for more yet to do. The team soon got stuck straight in.<\/div>\n

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Old cover off, new cover on.<\/div>\n

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Kevin continues to keep us all in order, where would we be without him!<\/div>\n

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Last pic for today, just before I left at about 6.45 2807 rolled in to stable train 2, lit by Christmas lights.<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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