Evening folks, and welcome to another update from us. This weekend has been another one where we’ve opened the Test Car up for everyone to come and have a look and learn about how and why rolling stock was tested. For those that visited its been a pleasure to talk to you!
Dave was at the NEC with West Hill Wagon Works, which left Barry, Richard and myself to give Test Car tours, and the rest of the gang to man the sales stand, all of which helps to put money back into the wagon fund.
Mark, Tom, Dan and Oliver did really well on the sales stand, though also found plenty of opportunities to get snaps of all the diesels running past the Test Car. Dan found some time to give some of the yellow vehicles a wipe over as well.
Sunday ended up being a very quiet day due to the weather, so the team started to find ways to amuse themselves. Some went on a ride on the trains, others started to investigate features of the Test Car, including swapping one of the speaker boxes, investigating the reed switch on the Slip Brake Application handle and seeing if we could find the other end of its cable to re-use it as the remote start on the Time/Speed/Distance Unit as was the case when slip brake testing. Another thing that was dug out and measured was the spare tachograph, which we are cooking up some plans for…
Given the weather, Nick also looked into the rebuild container to check for any leaks. Aside from around the door, all seems to be well and dry.
One of the visitors was PurpleVision who came through on the Sunday once the weather had cleared.
We’ll be back to wagon work next week, so back into the normal swing of things. Join us then where we are planning to pick up with where was left off on the Palvan. Thanks for reading!
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