Mid Hants Railway Operational Matters

I believe so.

 

It is rostered for both weekend days.

 

Thank you both.

Hopefully I can make it tomorrow!

Thanks

Andrew

 

We've been quiet of late due to excessive heat and lack of bodies making working party's atop the hill a non starter!

Yesterday however, we made it to the yard, it was a bit of a slow day, but progress was made non the less on the workshop PMV.

Out of the eight folks assembled, and with the main chassis now being in gloss, the decision was made to lay the rest of the floor, so that we can now walk around the PMV without problem.....

Most of the lads not on floor cutting duty cracked on with cleaning up the exposed steel uprights, whilst Muggin's 'Ere, Me Mucker & Matey extracted said boards from the S&D van, no mean feat, and got them chopped to length, after that it was a case of where we left off a few weeks ago with the cladding ply.......

We knew we had to fettle the top board, but just not how...... cue head scratching, and investigating, just what was stopping it from going home - turns out there were two rivet heads preventing this, one hiding under and obscure bit of timber - once that was removed, and steel work cleaned up, collective brain cells were called into action to work out just how to go about it without making a mess of the board, but not easy when you can't hear yourself think due to the amount of banging & crashing going on elsewhere inside the van!

Anyhoo, once a method had been settled on, the board was fashioned to fit & then trial fitted, and by some dint of a miracle, our efforts paid off, as the board fits as snug as a bug!

Next time it'll be the nerve wracking experience of routing to boards...... seems Muggin's & Me Mucker have made a rod for our own backs after our efforts on the LMS van!!!!

Did take any pics at all yesterday, but it nice to see one of the 20's out along with Can Pac and lots of folks out enjoying themselves on a day out.