The big-end clearance cover having been welded in place and primed by one of the full time staff. This was painted in black undercoat on the Sunday.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

The last of the new oil pot covers fitted to the trailing truck. Fitting these has been a lower priority 'filler job' so it's taken a few working parties to fit them all.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

This is the Weighshaft that we thought we'd have to remove to investigate why the grease wasn't getting to the bearings. The Key had been removed in anticipation, however, complete removal wasn't needed in the end.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

The cleaned and painted crinolines.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

A view of the tender brake rigging laid out as it will be on the tender.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

A general view of our base on the good shed showing the room we have to keep components in an orderly manner.
Photo: Adrian Strachan

The tender vacuum brake cylinder all ready for putting into the tender frames.
Photo: Adrian Strachan

One regulator, the housing casting and the valve all machined and ready to be sent to LMS who are refurbishing our boiler.
Photo: Adrian Strachan

Testing a sander on an NGG16 to see how much sand is used over a 2 minute period. With the size of the jet on these and the size of our jets we'll be able to determine how much sanding time we'll get with a given size of sand box.
Photo: Adrian Strachan