Evening all. Today involved another pleasant few hours working with the lads at Tyseley Locomotive Works in Birmingham. Since I've moved to the RR facility near Solihull, my usually pleasant Saturday morning drive to Tyseley has become somewhat more of a chore due to it being pretty much the same as my daily commuter route! On this chilly and very windy Saturday, a group of us hardy volunteers grabbed some rags and spent the day cleaning "Clun Castle". Tyseley engines have a reputation for their spotless liveries and so we rose to the occasion to ensure that 7029 looked her very best. Towards the end of the day, after many hours polishing, the engine was getting somewhere near to her usual high standard...
The hardest part of cleaning any steam locomotive is dealing with the knowledge that your several weekends worth of effort is destroyed in a matter of hours once the fire is lit! However, that is how in the glory days they were always kept and so, for the love of steam, these standards will be maintained. I'll next be at Tyseley in two weeks time (next week it's Statfold). Cheers all, Sam...
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