Hello all, and welcome to the Railways At Work update. Its been a busy, hot but thoroughly enjoyable weekend showing what the railways used to do. First order of business though is to wish Oliver a Happy Birthday for the 9th, for which he baked and duly shared cakes with us.
On Monday the fish van body from Rothley was moved to Quorn and lifted into position by the C&W team with their 15t crane.
On Friday I was on site to move the five BRUTEs to Leicester North, ready for the gala. Thanks to Harry for the assistance there. I’d also assisted Nick in fitting a door to the fish van body.
The team members that prefer not to dress up, go stuck into the Fish Van body, finishing off the door fitment, changing the damaged ship-lap panel for a piece of ply and then giving it a coat of undercoat.
On Sunday similar again, though the door and panel got a coat of olive green paint leftover from the tool van.
I’ll use the rest of the update as a gallery of photos from the Gala. Charlie, Dan and Oliver all playing the role of unruly trainspotting school boys, with Dave and I joining in the army of porters. I think all enjoyed themselves and we’ve had lots of positive feedback.
Thanks for reading and for anyone who came to the gala, next week should hopefully be a little more sedate, though there is still the BRUTEs to tidy away and eventually the vans to sort out.
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