Wednesday 11th November a colder than the normal weather and damp with rain.

                                         

                                 Three more fence post to dig out the holes and fit so whilst it is not raining.

five installed and two to go. As we had to buy a roll of fencing wire there was plenty left over this has gone to the GWR team and will be used behind platform 2 at Cheltenham as the fence there requires renewing.

The old Malvern Wells Station sign has been lying around since the mounting frame rotted last year there is now interest in it from the Malvern Wells council so today the heaviest 8 ft long section was carried over from by the toy museum with the help of Mike it will now be repaired. 

The leaves have been falling in vast quantity and covered the access steps and path so the garden vacuum got the worst up to stop folks slipping on them.

The Foss cross building is next to a tree so suffers with the wind blowing them in so again more vacuuming to do after this all the other buildings got the same treatment before closing the doors as the GWSR is now closed for winter apart from the special events.

                 

The first of the new cast aluminium signs has finally got it's white highlights done and Mike has repainted the footpath gate sign that will be installed by the viaduct up towards Broadway.

                                                                          

Finally we have been donated a non working model traction engine which is partially disassembled with parts lying loose and controls disconnected so a jig saw with no picture to help us repair it.

A car windscreen wiper motor is visible by the controls along with 3 switches but no sign of a 12 volt battery so assume there is a motorbike one somewhere inside, however there is no rubber drive belt from motor pulley to the driven gears there is also a glow plug wired up at what would be the boiler so again a guess it has a hot element to make smoke from whatever liquid is used in model trains as it is not a proper boiler or steam.

Lifting the top off took 10 minutes as it was rusted solid into the tubes but at least more is visible and the top cross shaft is just sat there .May need to search online for instructions or contact some local modelers I did have a book on building these types of machines for the home engineer from the 1950's or 60's but took it to a charity shop last summer.