26/05/2025 – Bumper Bank Holiday

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Dave Bower

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Hello and welcome to a bumper update from the team at Quorn; reporting on two weeks work on the TTA Tank 1919. It was also great to see the mixed goods running again for the popular Goods Experience event.

Last week progress was made with the headstocks and sanding the tank barrel. The remains of the last stubborn sticker adhesive took a bit of removing.

Two discarded picnic benches were recovered from Rothley and given some tlc. These will be put to good use by the team at Quorn.

A donated vice was attached to the heavy framed workbench.

This weekend started with a snapped brake release chord on the Dogfish in the mixed goods, which was given a temporary repair before Witherslack Hall arrived to take charge of the Goods Experience event train. The release chord will be fully replaced in due course.

Work then continued on tank 1919, sanding, wire brushing, scraping and needle gunning the solebars.

Followed by a coat of red-oxide primer; and a bit of much needed tlc for some paint brushes.

With the needle gun out an opportunity was taken to clean up some of the Lowfit underframe.

Monday and we were treated to a couple of customary Bank Holiday showers, however there were sufficient dry spells to continue with solebar and underframe scaping, wire brushing, sanding and red-oxide painting more areas on tank 1919.

A bit of tree pruning was necessary to get a couple of overhanging branches clear of the tanks; of course firstly making absolutely sure there were no nesting birds.

One of the theatrical prop bicycles was repaired using parts obtained from a local car boot sale. Some of the rod type brake linkage needed a bit of re-shaping to fit and operate smoothly.

Tank 1919 is progressing much closer to being ready for undercoat painting, lets hope the weather is kind to us next week !

Join us again next week when Quorn Station Yard will be busy with the 1940s Weekend, for full details see the GCR website here – https://tickets.gcrailway.co.uk/events/103217

All the best, Dave

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2 responses to “26/05/2025 – Bumper Bank Holiday”

  1. Dr Walter Rothschild avatar
    Dr Walter Rothschild

    I really enjoy reading the weekly illustrated and commentated updates – it cheers me up to see people doing something useful and sensible and creative and important and doing it for the love of it. Keep it up! Greetings from distant Berlin

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  2. shinyshark2cef0a00f4 avatar
    shinyshark2cef0a00f4

    Morning Dave and t’Gang. Great to see so much progress in such a short space of time- i wish our RVP team could match the amount of work achieved. The advantage of wagons over carriages is being that much smaller they can (generally) be completed that much quicker, giving the volunteers quick satisfaction of a job well done. More power to your collective elbows! ‘Happy Horace’

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