Wednesday 8th November a dry start then heavy showers started so some outside work was managed.

Greg has been busy on the hand made model of the Garrat  locomotive it is now all in black livery and the motors are driving the wheeks.

He has also got the new bottom plate in the GWR bucket.

It was then into Taylors office for a floor clean and paint it a lighter grey to make it lighter in there.

The assorted bricks had to be moved for the job but they are from some long gone brickworks

they rotared on the phone but will not here so some testing to do. 

Some if the old clay pipes and a hopper from the Taylors supply display have been used to get water away from the workshop onto the station flower beds a good job by Greg.

Next it was outside to start on preparing the 1874 pay office for some much needed painting and tlc.

scraping of the loose peeling paint then rubbing the area down for priming to stop the wet getting into the 149 year old timbers .

                    The Northern end suffers less from the prevailing weather and sun damage

When the first heavy shower stopped play it was time to find other tasks to do and after spending time searching for paint in the myriad of tins in various places a sort out in the storage shed would make future searches easier.

so clean out natures autumn fall debris

clear a shelf or two sort the tins out add some labels and reload the shelves

A bit of worrying advice on this tin

Then it was floor clean in the workshop as again the wind had blown the fallen leaves in by the hundred

with the outside water diversion done and guttering repair the floor can be repaired as the water should stay outside now not flow through.