They Seek Them Here, They Seek Them There..

The Thursday Gang were back in action and were distributed liberally around the site with many different jobs tackled. Andy had fun trying to catch the various groups at work but did find a major surprise.

Firstly Nick is getting to grips with the tool store and giving some much needed protection to the outside.

 Noel was using the needle gun on Cyril but was in for a bit of a shock....

John has opened the cage door and found a Chairman living inside... That's what is known as commitment.

Rob was continuing with the running repairs to Cyril and we think he may have been in there all week.

As for the other jobs done I can do no better than to use Andy's words and say Thank You to all who turned up.

"This week the Thursday crew tackled many different jobs the main job being the refurbishment of sleepers behind Travis Perkins which is essential preparation work for extending the track to the Cattle Creep. Dave Roll lead a team of willing volunteers working on these sleepers until ran stopped play late in the afternoon. Other work undertaken was a trip to get 80 gallons of diesel and bottles of oxygen and argon along with a boiler pressure tester, Chippy John continued with work on the coach, Noel was using the needle gun removing old paint from Cyril while John and Rob worked on the engine, Nick painted part of the tool shed wagon, Steve painted the railings on the north end of the Oswestry platform, Glynn marked the levels for laying the ballast for the middle road at Oswestry station and many other jobs."

Many thanks to Andy G for the words and pictures.

Until next time