This week the team at Quorn work on the Esso Tank Wagons 3606 & 3621, and Lowfit B452718, helped by a group of Young Rail Professionals (YRP).
It was also a great pleasure to welcome members of the Salisbury and South Wilts Railway Society who were visiting the GCR.
On Saturday Mark, Oliver, Tom, Daniel and Charlie got stuck in to some scraping, wire brushing, sanding and needle gunning on Tanks 3606 and 3621.
The Young Railway Professionals team worked on the Lowfit underframe, again with scrapers, wire brushes and a needle gun.
Ernie, Ross, Dan and myself set to work making 16 steel brackets that will be used to mount the Esso plates on tank 3621. After measuring up the existing brackets on tank 3606, some steel plate strip was cut into lengths and the holes drilled.
The first plate was marked for the bend position, heated and bent to shape. This was then checked against the existing brackets.
The remaining 15 cut and drilled plates were then marked, heated and bent to shape.
The blanked off heating coil bungs on tank 3606 were cut to get the bungs out with a view to making a replacement section of pipework.
Red Oxide was applied to some of the cleaned up areas on tank 3606.
Sunday saw Harry, Charlie and myself continuing with cleaning up areas on 3606 and 3621 followed by more red oxide primer.
All in all another busy weekend with progress on the Esso tanks.
Join us again next week as we continue with the tanks, all the best, Dave
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