20th April 2012

Driver's compartment of 424 B end.

30th September 2011

Previously vandalised 30-09-2011

20th April 2012

Driver's compartment of 334.

18th April 2012:  Here are a few pictures taken showing what greeted me upon my arrival at The Roundhouse, I didn’t know where to start cleaning up initially. I am now in a routine and enjoying being there spending around four to five hours per day on site doing my bit. Not that it counts for much in the end, but just don’t want to the little farquewitz who caused this mess thinking they have won. It was all a shame the operations folded when they did for LCR as I would have enjoyed being part of the team there, sadly all closed down many years before I made the move here to the Mount in 2011. Other things to attend to was cleaning up the mess caused by these useless individuals who forced the padlocks then entered and plundered the contents of the two DWF vans at the rear of the shed, smashing souvenir glasses, cups and anything else they could get their useless hands on scattering everything else around the place too. 

19th April 2012:  More moving stuff around the place, sweeping up all rubbish into heaps on the floor, picking up the scattered items here there and everywhere off the floors around the railcars. I made a start on sweeping the glass fragments off the ground between 424 and 334 then stopped as I realised this would all be a waste of time as there was so much shattered glass remaining in the window frames of these railcars. 

20th April 2012:  Making good progress having removed all the remains of the smashed glass from railcar 424 from the frames, unfortunately 91.75% of the glass pieces are still inside the railcar on the floor and on the seats. At this time I will only remove the glass piece fragments remaining in all railcar windows, so as to enable them to be moved by road one day whenever that is..... More sweeping of the floor and managed to use the leaf blower for a while until it conked out, I suspect the air filter is full of ‘muck’. Also managed to open one of the large sliding doors at the rear of the roundhouse as well to improve the air flow and quality of the air whilst sweeping. Also notice today that some other lower life form types have also liberated all the air horns from the three railcars on the western side of the roundhouse (nice- not). 

21st April 2012:  Yep, Wayne the Yard Superintendent spent another four hours down the yard today, more sweeping, cleaning up glass from the windows of 405 this time, only three windows to go and that one has been ‘done’. Some of the rubbish lying around the floor space in heaps has been picked up and wheel barrowed to an on site ‘skip’ and duly deposited inside. The place is starting to resemble a loco depot again, with the first stage of the clean up coming closer by the day to being finished. Then I will not have to spend so much time there, just pay a bit more attention to detail with minor cleaning jobs. I find it easier to spend four hours there than I would at my place doing jobs around here.

1st May 2012:  Managed to get to the Roundhouse today and do a bit more with railcar 405, completed the major removal of those nasty glass fragments from the frames of the drivers end windows and get the shots through the big ‘today only’ opened western doors.. In the meantime the rain managed to pour down during the official opening of the doors and as shown in some of the pics below.