The heatwave continued today though not quite as bad as yesterday and I managed to complete the right-hand boot door and prime it. I also sorted out the pyramid strips for the entrance floor and cleaned and Vactan’d the first one. Last part of the day I applied filler to the left-hand boot door for rubbing down tomorrow.

It seems some time since any work was recorded and quite a lot of work has been done. Firstly, both boot doors have been skinned in aluminium. This took a couple of days to complete. Next, applying filler to the boot doors to eradicate hammer marks and minor distortion and starting the sanding process. A couple of days were spent spring-cleaning the railway shed and I decided it was about time to cut the lino for the floor by the entrance steps and for the entrance steps themselves as it had been hanging around in the shed for a while. The floor section has been glued in place and undercoated with copper red floor paint. The nosings for the top of the steps and the second step have been cut but the front flange remains to be trimmed. The lino for the second step has been cut and awaits fitting which will happen after the step bay metalwork has been top-coated.

RH boot door being skinned

Both boot doors, frames repaired and re-skinned