Wednesday 22nd March a lovely warm spring morning but inside beckons.

Unfortunately we have had visitors in the toy museum on a weekly basis emptying the cabinets of trains and unpacking the old OO gauge tracks then leaving them all over the floor and tables after playing with them, some of these toys are 80 plus years old so no longer toys.

This has prompted us to put locking devices on the displays and also gave us the chance to strip them out for a clean and then change the displays this wasted a few hours but it is now secureand looking better.

Next it was onto the Malvern sign this had come loose in the ground so a clear out and filling with post crete has stabilised it.

Greg started a clean up of peeling paint and found some rot so more work when it dries out.

then back to the workshop for brakes on the Morris a quick clean in the ultra sonic cleaner improved them no end so a light grease and reassemble ready for refitting.

Brake shoes came next as the friction material was lifting off the shoe with rust Bruce Pickles Ltd of Redhill kindly sent us 50 new rivets so we could refit the linings after.

Unfortunately after stripping the left front we found it had a worn out lining,  as the new rivet heads were to large for the holes in the linings and thinking they may be asbestos enlarging the locations to suit the rivets was a no go.

After shot blasting and painting the shoes are reusable but are being sent to B Pickles for relining.

The railway have cleared some old porta cabins and our flat bed trailer is now standing alone so we need the Scammel to get it to our area for work this prompted Greg to started the engine on the Iron Horse to ensure it is ready for a little trip to the car park however an oil leak from the filter meant a strip clean and reseal of the lid.

The Museum work side tracked us as it was not planned in hopefully the team can now just clean the remaining cabinets so it looks good for the full open season..