Hello and welcome to a Diesel Gala weekend update from the team at Quorn. We’ve again had Test Car 2 open to visitors, and we’re pleased to announce the arrival of our NEW updated Pocket Stockbooks which give full details of all the vehicles in our fleet.
We took the opportunity to have our sales stand out alongside the booking-on point for the Drive a Shunter event that proved very popular.
Although the shunter movements restricted our working area, we did manage to progress work on the splash guards from 3621. The badly corroded areas of the last splash guard were ground out by Ross and fresh plate welded in.
New mounting holes were drilled in all four splash guards, then a coat of red-oxide primer applied. Three were then re-fitted to tank 3621.
A new lawnmower was acquired from the car-boot sale that will help keep our working areas of the yard tidy through the summer. Charlie soon got it working, then stripped it down to clean up and paint; whilst Ernie modified an old fire extinguisher to make a moneybox to go on the sales stand.
The Test Car was steadily busy throughout the weekend. Thank you to all the many interested visitors who took time to listen to my ramblings and find out about the history of the coach and what it was used for by British Rail.
We made progress with getting some old test equipment working, including the tachometer and distance 1/8 mile pulse output, the accelerometer (that was used for measuring wagon stability) and the thermal paper chart recorder.
A fabulous weekend for the diesels thundering past the Test Car too.
Join us again next week when we’ll be fully focussed on the wagons.
I’ll leave you with another diesel….
All the best, Dave
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