Wednesday the 24th a lovely day and warmer than it should be so outside it is.

Storm Jocelyn passed through in the night and brought a branch down onto the far side of the shed so with the aid of a broom it was pushed over the roof ready to be cut up.

                               

It was then Scammell time and making a rubber cover for the fuel tank to stop water ingress and reduce condensation as it lives outside.

                                     

An attempt to start it showed no dash lights or any other lights but it turned over, investigation behind the dash with a hand got lights on for a few seconds so dash out time and the connection on the ammeter was faulty so removed and brought home to make a new piece of loom.

                                                

Jane, Wayne and Mike had been busy over the week doing some spring cleaning in the Honeybourne signal box, the museum coach and the pay office ready for the return of visitors in March.

                                              

We have been given a engineers drawing 6 draw unit from the engineering department so this need collection from a container behind the workshops it was two  good walks back to the office up the carpark and over the tracks. Mike got the polish out before putting them into the office where the team will fill them up..

                                    

Then it was time for the connection corridor bellows repair on the museum coach, Greg is busy sewing a tear in the bottom of the left side, easier said than done as it is tough stuff.                   

I have removed a temporary wooden strip and put a metal top retaining arch it the top of the connection.

                           

A tear in the bellows was sewn up.

Many years ago a sign was rescued from the fruit shed at Toddington this was on the top floor of the building, it is now on display in the coach.

                                      

Whilst in the coach a look around showed the window surrounds getting discoloured by water ingress and condensation so a treatment with oxalic acid that will remove the black stains and lighten the wood colour once dried and to a satisfactory colour we will treat them with linseed oil.

For a future project we have a GWR mail/cash security transit box to bring back to good condition one problem is that it is locked and there is no key which may be interesting as it is a solid reinforced box for obvious reasons.