The week started with a mega shunt to get everything where we wanted.
Photo: Andrew Cole

In the goods shed, which has become our paint shop, the firebox cladding is being painted.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

In the goods shed, which has become our paint shop, the firebox cladding is being painted.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

The cabsides being painted at Boston Lodge in late December 2023.
Photo: Erle Ford

Some of the smaller components (the covers for the stay bolts) at Boston Lodge in late December 2023.
Photo: Erle Ford

A momentous sign of recent progress, we casted our brick arch. Here the release agent in being applied.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

In goes the first shovel full.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

The vibrator is used to remove all the air bubbles.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

Third brick now filled.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

The finishing smoothing off.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

Number 6 done....
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

All completed.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

These will now be left for a few days before being removed from the moulds.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

A few day's later the bricks were removed from their moulds.
Photo: Andrew Cole

These will now be put in the dryer to remove all traces of moisture.
Photo: Andrew Cole

The final bit's of pipework on the fireman's side lubricator for the Krauss Helmholtz pony truck and steam oil feeds to that side.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

The covers for the steam pipes to the cylinders was being made.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

Yet more pipework... this time the attention is being paid to the steam oil lubricator on the driver's side. Some feeds cross over the loco to the LHS cylinder tith the rest to those on the RHS.
Photo: Laurence Armstrong

One of the smaller jobs done was the drilling of two holes in the tender's front drag-box to take the eyelets for the loco to tender safety chains.
Photo: Andrew Cole

We have painted cladding, and dome...... with some of the team including Badger, the team mascot and the Dinas 'Ship's Cat'
Photo: Adrian Strachan

The tender after a coat of gloss paint.
Photo: Adrian Strachan

The return spring fitted to the loco's brake rigging.
Photo: Erle Ford

On the tender, the vacuum cylinder is now hooked up to the brake linkage.
Photo: Erle Ford

Also on the tender the return spring is attached, although after a trial operation of the whole mechanism, that did operate as required, some adjustment will be required.
Photo: Erle Ford

The Brake Block Adjuster Guide Blocks finished their machining and trial fitted to the Brake Hangers. Their first coat of paint has now been applied
Photo: Erle Ford