Sunny Sunday (4) - L&B Bogey coaches train .....

Well almost sunny, warm and a bit of cloud with an occasional hint of blue sky; good enough weather to give the L&B bogey coaches an inaugural run on the garden layout...

Before giving the coaches a run I altered one of my bogey brown vans to have an LGB coupling at one end, so I could pull the coaches...

Out on the garden layout...

CoachWorks - L&B Bogey Coaches (2) - finishing off..

All Third
Removing the old door handles, most of which were broken and replacing them with some new brass ones

With that done, glazing put back in and the roof put back on - the person who made the coach had secured the roof using screws which went in two of the ventilators - a neat solution

looking rather nice after its refurbishment - decals needed...(on order)

The Brake Composite

Replacing a couple of broken door handles,  fortunately I was able to save some I removed from the All Third coach and use them so I had matching handles...

After some careful paint matching some touching in done on the roof and coach body it now looks better

CoachWorks - L&B Bogey Coaches (1) - getting started...

 the bright green coach roof removed and the glazing removed....

Onto the modelling desk and the coach body gets it new darker green colour...

the green colour is a shade darker than the other coach, but it will do (the other coach is in good condition and I don't want to repaint it)

started refurbishing the roof....

plenty left to do

• roof to finish
• replace broken door handles
• varnish
• re-assemble 
• get some suitable transfers for the coach compartments -  all Third

after that do a cosmetic 'lift' on the other coach

Loco Kit (11) - Out of the paint shop...ready for service

Out of the paint shop...  and onto the tracks.... looking well good in blue...

ready for service...

Sunny Sunday (3) - Permanent way train.....

Scorchio ! Ran the permanent way train this morning before it go to hot to be outside for long ....

L&B Bogey Passenger Coaches..

DOH ! Another Ebay purchase 😀. 

I didn't need more rolling stock but I spotted a couple of L&B bogey coaches; which would go nicely with my L&B bogey goods stock. I got them for much less than expected, ~£35 each.

The big parcel with them in arrived this morning; so once unpacked I went down the garage to have a quick play.  They run nicely ....

and even go round my radius 1 curves - super !

It was a good job I made some shelf space on Monday,  I had some room for them ... 

Some tidying and repairs are needed, plus perhaps change the couplings from LGB to Accucraft Chopper ones.  Yay ! another project...

Shelving - stock storage...

I had a trip out to B&Q today to get some white Contiboard and some shelf supports, so I could tidy up the stock storage shelving in the garage.

Squeezed an extra shelf in between two, to hold the L&B bogey goods rolling stock...

Replaced some skanky old improvised shelves, with this setup - nice and tidy