It’s that time again, another work session with more progress on B780952.

Jason, Paul, Tim and I focusing on the vehicle.
Jason and Paul continuing the prep work of the chassis, removing rust, flakey paint, moss and other detritus.

Tim’s focus was the fitment of the South side door pin and lower stopper plate on B780952. He also took a look at Palvan B778810 which had issues with its South side door locking bar and some paint work.

The upper bar retainer had bent allowing the door bar to fall away from its locking position. Tim manufactured and fitted a retaining strip to prevent this. Then turned his attention to removing failed paint work before priming and top coating, the vehicle will need a full repaint soon as it has not faired as well as hoped.

For me I carried out my favorite activity, that being signwriting. Telegraph code, gross weight, running number, express speed marker, wheelbase, tare and paint symbol being applied to both sides.

Finally, we gave a very special item a quick outing in the evening sun.

For those who may not be aware the Station Building at Overton was originally from Fletton which was the opposite side of the East Coast Mainline to Fletton Junction, todays mainline connection to the Nene Valley Railway.

That concludes this weekends update. In two weeks time we shall hopefully let you know what we have been up to.