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Just a brief update today: Topcoating to the body steelwork is now completed, another job off the ‘To Do’ list. (Photo courtesy of Philip Halstead).

After all the hours of hard work with little visible improvement, CCT 37071 has finally turned a corner with red topcoat now being applied to much of the body framework. About a third of the north side has been done… … Continue reading →

Hot off the press are these photos from Philip, who has spent a day completing the ‘Metro Red’ undercoat to the remaining half of the steel body framework.   The undercoating is now complete, apart from the back of the … Continue reading →

Wagon Group volunteer Philip spent some time cleaning the rust out at the top of the side stanchions where the final boards had been removed a few weeks ago, and applied primer to these areas as well as the drop-down … Continue reading →

After completing the removal of the final bodyside planks during the last working session, work began on the floor. A number of floorboards had been partially burned away at some point while the vehicle was in open storage, the damaged … Continue reading →

Recently our efforts have been concentrated on removing the final planks to the bodysides of LMS CCT 37071. We had been toying with keeping the four top timber planks in situ and making them as good as we could with … Continue reading →

A working volunteer and keen supporter of the Wagon Group has privately purchased two (Nos. 4726 and 4730) of the ex-Ministry of Defence 5-plank opens, that were offered in an auction of surplus MOD equipment. They touched down at NVR … Continue reading →

The end doors have now been removed from both ends of the CCT, meaning the end of the stripping phase is in sight.   A few days later, the ironwork for the end doors was de-rusted and primed.

Wagon Group volunteer Philip has continued his single-handed mission to clean up and prime the structural steel framing. Over two further working sessions he has progressed along the north side…   …and completed all the preparation and priming of all … Continue reading →

Wagon Group volunteer Philip has spent two successive working sessions cleaning up and priming the structural steelwork. By the end of the first day, he had cleaned up the rust and primed up to the central doors on the south … Continue reading →

After some time away from the railway over the Christmas and New Year period, we got reacquainted with ex-LMS CCT 37071 which continues to undergo stripping as the first stage of its cosmetic restoration.   The remaining lower bodyside planks … Continue reading →

The patient awaits… ex-LMS ‘CCT’ (which stands for Covered Carriage Truck, a vehicle designed for carrying motor vehicles and also used for parcels traffic) in the shed at the start of our most recent working session.   The interior looks … Continue reading →