Tag: 452718

Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s update. This week, we’ve followed up the undercoat on 1919 with a gloss coat and continued the re-assembly of 3606.

1919 first then, although windy, Saturday was a perfect day for painting with it being dry and warm out so came the spray kit. With eight litres of thinned down paint, I applied a solid first coat to the tank barrel and sole bar all round, with the west side underframe getting a look in too.

Charlie cleaned up our spare direction switch for the Brush Pony trucks, and also cleaned up the top of the underframe on the Lowfit, making good work of the whole frame and applying some red oxide primer.

With the paint drying on 1919, our attention turned to 3606. We’ve had a sample bend section supplied to check which was close, but required some alteration to fit, which was carried out between Nick, Ernie and I. Some bends were altered and a section of material let in to extend the front section. this can now go back to the supplier so that they can make the full foot wide support pieces for this tank.

The heating coil pipe on 3606 was also completed, with Nick and Ernie having to recover one of the cutting rings from the compression fitting being used to complete the work. The bent sections where fitted together, then I welded them to the bosses on the tank, as would have originally been done.

That wraps up this week; next week maybe another coat on the 1919, or it could be something else. Lets see what the week and the weather hold for us. Thank for reading

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

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

Hello and welcome to a sunny weekend update from Quorn; we’ve continued with getting tank 1919 ready for paint and completed a small repair to part of the brake rigging on the Lowfit.

Lowfit wagon B452718 is due to go to Rothley at some point for underframe repairs, in the meantime we need to progress other jobs which include a repair to a broken part of the brake rigging. One of the twin operating arms has a fractured spacer and a missing spacer. To make the repair easier, on Saturday the arm was removed from the wagon.

The spacer attachment areas were cleaned up and a new spacer cut from a piece of tubing.

The arm assembly was then clamped together and welded up.

The rigging arm was then treated to a coat of red oxide primer, followed by a coat of gloss black.

Dan continued with his work on the A-Type container, cleaning up more of the metalwork and applying red-oxide primer.

The main focus for the weekend has been needle gunning, sanding and scraping of tank 1919 to progress closer to being able to apply paint.

Where bare metal was revealed, red oxide primer was applied and when dry the north end headstock panel had grey undercoat.

On Sunday the sanding and scraping continued on tank 1919, also a couple of areas on tanks 3621 and 3606 were attended to.

Again any bare metal areas on all 3 tanks were treated to some red oxide primer.

The repaired brake rigging arm was re-fitted to the Lowfit after straightening the locating pins.

The sticker glue residue was removed from the west side of tank 1919.

Next week with most of the team away, we’ll be taking a break from reporting any activity until we’re back for the Bank Holiday bumper weekend at the end of the month.

Cheers for now, Dave