October News

It has been a hugely active month and an extremely busy one for the department with many more vehicles than usual being involved, this being a correspondingly large update as a result. No doubt things will settle down as we pass through Autumn and hide in the shed as we head for winter!London North Eastern Railway 1950 Brake Corridor Third E1866E (GOLD)Externally work has been solely focused on the production of door skins. These have proved very problematic with neither the doors nor the doorways being particularly straight or square, which is causing problems with the new door skins which are square (or at least starting out so). The clearance gaps are all over the place so much readjustment and remaking has been the order of the day to slowly get each example something like suitable. The skins are being produced in two halves, so when "finished" the final act will be welding them together, which will be a careful task so as not to distort them. A tricky job all round...Inside the…