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September 2005

1st September 2005

Thursday 1st saw Pete from Carlisle (yes you did indeed read Carlisle!) on site working with Chris. Pete undercoated the chair that Adrian and Chris had worked on a few days previously. Chris continued with the numerous little paint jobs that were outstanding.
Monday 5th was the next working party and Pete and Chris were on site yet again. Pete top-coated the seat with black gloss and commenced dismantalling the next seat for the same treatment. Chris built a display shelf ready for a sales stand which will be at the steam festival at the end of the month.
Tuesday 6th saw a vast improvement to the tea brewing facilities in our workshop with Pete building a shelf to hold the mugs and other very essential items as well as providing a big box of biscuits! A proper stereo was installed by Chris and Pete to replace the radio that has never worked very well since it fell of one of the air reservoirs in the engine room! Alan cracked on with the building of the cab floor for Number 1 Cab.
Thursday 8th had Joan, Doug, Chris, Alan and Pete on site - very good attendance for a midweek party! Alan carried on the floor making after fresh supplies of timber had arrived. Pete reassembled the recently painted seat and it looks superb. Pete rubbed-down the next seat and primed it before the day was over. Chris sanded two of the replacement electrical covers for Number 2 Cab and Joan then painted them on the inside face. Chris painted one of the electrical covers with primer. Doug worked on the sanding system replacing a damaged delivery pipe with one of the spares that were acquired from C.F. Booth at Rotherham. Chris repaired two of the other sanding pipes and also painted the floor in Number 2 nose - only a small bit of floor remains to be painted.
On Friday 9th, John, Pete and Chris were on site for a few hours in between fotting a Class 33 which was running nearby with an inspection saloon - John insists that he still dislikes Cromptons! Pete painted the current seat into undercoat and Chris assisted John with work on the heaters in Number 1 Cab. John rewired the AWS Change-End switch.
Pete and Chris arrived on site during Saturday afternoon on the 10th after an earlier commitment. Pete top-coated the latest seat and commenced re-covering the cushions for the second seat as the originals were torn when they were supplied to us. Chris gave the inside surfaces of the electrical covers for Number 2 Cab a second coat of heatproof paint. Chris installed two heaters in Number 1 Cab (one on each side of the cab on the floor).
On Sunday 11th, Chris, Alan and Pete were on site. Chris painted various items including the hotplate surround into undercoat. Chris also cleaned up a couple of glass sections from the light fittings that are away for chroming - rumours of Chris taking up a new hobby of washing up have been strongly denied!! Alan continued the task of building the jigsaw that has become the cab floor at Number 1 End. At the end of the day there remained only one more floor panel to be produced and a source of screws to secure the floor has been found. Pete carried on working on the second crew seat and completed the recovering of the seat cushion as well as doing a sterling job making tea!
Chris, Dan and John were at the Great Central Railway's diesel gala on Sunday 18th riding behind Sister loco 37255 so Doug, Joan and Alan carried on without us on the loco. Alan completed the cab floor at No.1 end - what a transformation it has made! Doug and Joan worked in both cabs getting them ready for some welding to take place shortly.
On Sunday 25th the Annual Harvest Festival Steam Fair took place on the site where we are based. The fair is produced to a smaller scale than the main steam fair in May although the Harvest Festival Steam Fair is much more informal. We had number 1 cab open for the public to visit and the loco proved extremely popular with at least 300 people visiting the cab over the weekend! A lot of people remarked that it was a nice change to see some people preserving a diesel locomotive rather than all the steam locomotives on site - something we kept winding the steam blokes up about all weekend!! We had a small sales stand in front of the loco selling all sorts of railway books and models. We sold almost all of the model railway stock before the end of Saturday so Chris had to go and get some more ready for the Sunday. Thanks to all that helped over the weekend: Adrian, Alan, Chris McNaughton, Dan and John.

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