Hello, and thank you for joining us for another update from Quorn. This week we’ve been progressing both the Pipe wagon and Kiki, plus some additional work by C&W on Test Car 2 in preparation for our upcoming open weekend.
As Test Car 2 is hoped to be running on at our event, we’ve got to make sure it has an annual exam and FTR, which will be its first annual exam. The guys at Rothley have been carrying out the exam and have lifted the coach to inspect the bogies. Thank you guys!
Back to Quorn and the weekend. The first job for Nick and I was to lift the A type container from the back of Nick’s lorry. This has been a long term resident next to the locomotive department’s mess room and has now become surplus. We’ve got a condition assessment to do, but more on this in future updates.
The container now safely on the floor, we moved onto continuing the floor in the Pipe. The now regular de-nailing, cutting and fitting went well, and barring a few reliefs to make in the end plank and the fixing down, the floor is completed.
Dave, Mark and Dan joined us on Sunday, and the team were able to split in two, with Nick, Dan and Mark finishing the Pipe fixing it down with the edge strips.
Dave and I continued the push on Kiki, Dave touching in the black and red paintwork and cleaning the lift up bed, with me re-wiring the hydraulic pump and tidying the main feed cabling.
With the wiring done, it was time for the big switch on, or in our case plug in…
Nothing went bang, so I’d call that a success! Thank you for reading, and join us again next weekend where we’ll be on the Pipe, or piping. See you!
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