Days at the railway are not all about firing turns. Today it is the first September Youth Development Club meeting, and out job is to dispose a few locos and clean the 08, before chopping some wood.
First though, the lovely Class 104 joins the fleet on it inaugural running day:
Our first job will be to dispose the Y14 which was on the lunch service yesterday:
The group meet at Sheringham, and come up on the first train. Today it's hauled by the 4MT:
We gather the team on the footplate and go through the usual morning checks - valves, handbrake, reverser and have a look in the firebox, before going forward to clear the smokebox:
Some of the guys have birthdays in September and so will be adult volunteers in a few weeks. They get to do the firebox, as they will be doing it for real soon:
The adult helpers get stuck in too:
It's not a big firebox and they are soon back in daylight:
The 104 looks resplendent in the sunshine while we have lunch:
Driver Tony kindly provides the group with a guided tour of the Class 31 before we go to the wood pile for the rest of the day.
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