What a nice day for working on the railway! The Sussex sun was shining and the temperature rose through the day but never got unbearable.
So we were happy to hang the second door on the northeast corner of the mess van and make final adjustments to both doors to ensure they fitted into the newly narrowed aperture, then bolt them in, having first cut the heavy iron hinges to length and cleaned them up for painting. We then routed the planking lines into the plywood sheet which replaces the old planking adjacent to these doors. We can finish bolting this sheet in place next week, adding sealant, and secure the cut planking as well. A few more man-days should finish off this door set, before we contemplate tackling the final - centre - door set. The last of the door furniture was removed from the old doors, which can now be broken up and disposed of.
Already the internal cladding and insulation work is about to resume in the last stretch of the mess van interior remaining to be tackled.
Close by, painting continued on the chassis of the three-plank wagon, and on the brake van and its verandahs.
On the trackwork front, next week sees the delivery of large amounts of ballast followed by another stretch of new tracklaying, rapidly approaching join-up with the old 'b' line. This temporary join-up will eventually allow the rolling stock to be relocated away from the station during reconstruction of the terminus.
Steve G
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