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Another month has flown by with some more progress. Work has continued at LMS on the cylinder cladding, made some years ago we decided it needed some tweaking for a better fit. The two new sand boxes have had the sand traps fitted up and soon we will be attempting the 6 sand pipes which although made in sections bend there way down to the sand guns in every direction going! The new sand chutes are complete at Toddington and just need the mounting brackets welding on once we’re happy with the placement.
The new tender steps and rear ladder have had some paint and can be put back into store for when needed. We had a very successful Cotswold festival of steam gala at Toddington with new share purchases and sales amounting to more than £5000, our best result to date. We had a display of one of the completed tender wheelsets along with the new regulator and bracket assembly, which was a talking point with our visitors. Not much news from leaky finders except that work continues and recent work has seen the new crown stay nuts fitted to the crown stays not requiring changing. We will be launching a new fund raising initiative soon and I’ll let everyone know when we do!