The Midland Railway Lamp hut

This building was recovered from Brookethorpe, with Whaddon, Church yard, south of Gloucester a few years ago.

Moved there, from the nearby, main Gloucester Bristol main line, for use as a Churchyard tool shed.

It has been sitting in the Garden of 1 Station Cottages Toddington awaiting a future.

Our Trustee Mike Dodd, has arranged its restoration and a move to Toddington yard as an example of a typical lamp room , complete with an interior filled with the artefacts you would expect to find in such.

The Tewkesbury YMCA railway group have undertaken its restoration, and have removed the last 120 years of paint, giving the building an, as new, look. 

Many thanks to the volunteers

 GWR Ocean Mails Coach 185

Repair work is underway on this vehicle after discovering the filler over the screwheads holding the metal cladding in place is coming away.

This is the downside to the  exceptionally hot weather which causes the panels to move causing any loose screws to pull out of the wood.

The protective varnish has fractured and crazed on the side facing the sun.

We remove the loose screws, then insert wooden doweling and glue, and use brass screws to replace rusted away steel ones.

Keith noticed a brass door handle falling off, the woodwork in the door had to be repaired to mount it successfully again.





 

The next photos shows a bodged attempt to repair a split in the door stile.

Car Body filler has been used to hide the split and as ever this achieves little.

So out it came, the crack thoroughly cleaned out, then glued, and clamped.