Monday 25 May 2015

Maintenance Update (pins, shunter, stalls, FLA)

Wednesday 20th
I was giving a lighting-up course to one of the Loco Dept chaps, so didn't see what was happening with the loco.  Then after lunch I had to go to visit my Mum in hospital .. so I missed it all !!!  So, Bruce reports:

"First thing Gilbert and Bruce looked at the defect reports to see what needed doing, they then climbed between the frames to investigate some of them.
A report by George stated that one of the pins on the front right spring hanger had lost its retaining clip and had started to work its way out.

He had knocked the pin back in and fitted a new split pin to hold it, he also replaced the split pin on the other end of the spring. Unfortunately he could only find split pins that were slightly undersize.
At the same time 4270 and 5542 were having their steam test so, as 2807 needed to be over the pit these loco's were used to move it. We finished up with four engines, all coupled together for this move. (the diesel shunter was in the middle).

Once over the pit Gilbert and Bruce removed the undersize pins and replaced them with the correct size.

At the same tome John G painted the bottoms on four chairs (rail) before moving on to his usual cleaning duties on the loco.

Three of the department guys also did some prep work on the loco before cleaning between the frames.

Fred arrived from Winchcombe to needle gun a rusty bracket from the siphon.

Late afternoon by now and quite a crowd had gathered in the car park to watch Raveningham Hall and its tender being unloaded from their transporters.

Another arrival was the tender from Wadebridge. We now have two southern tenders in the yard but no sign of the two spam cans to go with them."

Thursday 21st
Stuart & I did a bit of prep work for the stall and tombola over the weekend. 34007 arrived!

Friday 22nd
The other Southern arrived.

Saturday 23rd
Stuart, Gil & I represented CSPL while 2807FLA chaps manned their book stall.

Sunday 24th
Stuart was again manning CSPL's stall; I was crossing monitor at Gotherington.  It rained: seemingly every time rain came in people wanted to cross the line!!!

Monday 25th
Stuart and I manned the stall for a final day.  We were trying to get rid of remaining stock.  We took £400 over the weekend, which is certainly worth having!  We shall have no further sales stalls, as there is no one to organise or staff them.

2807 seemed to perform well.  She looked particularly good hauling the freight trains, I thought.

She is due for a boiler wash-out, so I expect Bruce, Gil & John will be busy on Wednesday …


Roger

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