Jay, Richard, Dave, Mark and I were on site today.
Dave has been continuing to identify and clean sections of pipework for the brake frame. He has also devised a test-rig for testing various valves to see which ones work. Mark could only stay until midday so he barred the power unit round and oiled the turbos. Mark had brought one of the change-end switches that go beside the driver from storage, and it was examined, but the mechanism appeared not to be working properly, so another was brought from store, and this one seemed to operate correctly. Because these switches are pretty much sealed, the interiors have remained remarkably clean and free from corrosion. The wiring to both change-end switches had been severed long ago, so the ends of the wires were cut off to show clean copper, then they were belled out and labelled for when the switches are fitted in both cabs. The threaded holes in the mounting plates for the change-end switches were re-tapped as they were either rusty or full of paint.
Heading image: Andy Rowlands belling and identifying wires to the AWS relay box. Photo by Jay Hirst.