Wednesday the 6th December a bittier cold start the windscreen wanted to keep the ice on it so the deicer had to come out so I could get to the railway

Greg has been busy on the locomotive model it is now looking good and it actually works when connected to a power supply

I started on the corridor connection hangers for the museum coach, a quick session on the rotary wire brush got the rust off ready for the red primer

Mean time Greg started levelling a dip in the block path outside the workshop.

The ivy is rampant on the fence posts and untidy so I have cut the stems around the base so it will die and make removal easier, in time this fence will be replaced by GWR wire to the straining posts.

Once the paint was dry it was time for corridor connection fitment to make the carriage look like it is usable

The corridor locking mechanism had been restored a few moths ago and just needed carrying across the car park to the coach where it was balanced on the step.

This angle gave us access to bolt on one old hanger and the new one fabricated in the GWSR repair sheds. then it was a simple stand upright and fit the hanging pins, springs and nuts. This just leaves us the canvas bellows to sort out.

We had to call into the records office where the team are busy digitising thousands of photos, slides and information donated to the trust

It was then onto the shaded side of the workshop to remove the gutter and uneven fascia boards

The guttering was full of frozen leaves and debris.

We squared up the timbers and trimmed a joist to get a straighter edge

We then attached the new boards and had to trim them so the windows would open.

A trip  out to get new gutter hangers is next on the list so we can reinstall the gutter at a later date.