Tuesday

Dave cleaning carriage footstep brackets for further use

Monday

The photos below are courtesy of Peter Weightman:

Jim setting up one of 38's con rods ready for remachining the big end buckle.

Sunday

Jim making large spacing washers for TIC No.35's brake blocks

Shields, On the River Tyne

The Tate's JMW Turner's paintings are on country-wide tour, with "The Fighting Temeraire" recently on display at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle.   In support of this, JMW Turner's "Shields, on the River Tyne" is featured at TWAM's South Shields Museum.   The painting is interesting in showing coal handling & its transition from shovelling from keels to using waggons with bottom doors on drops (lowering waggons out over the hold) or spouts (chutes to aim coal around the hold).

Shields, on the River Tyne
This painting from the mid 1820s belongs to & is fully described by the Tate 

Thursday

Ian grinding rag from footboard brackets removed from the 6-wheel chassis

Wednesday

Sarah varnishing Twizell's wheels

Tuesday

Ian sorting out long-stored spare parts for the crane