It is beginning to look a lot like Autumn!

It is beginning to look a lot like Autumn! That is what I thought as I looked back on a section of the Nature Trail path at the Rocks BY Rail Museum having cut all the grass along it. 

The actual grass cutting was a battle as I had not been down this part of the site foe several weeks.

However, keen vegetational butchery with Mikey Mower saw the area cleared of long growth! 

The Museum site was partly made up ground and with its natural clay base all this leads to differential sinkage in hot weather as witnessed by the track being a bit undulating. Safe to travel at slow speeds I am assured!

Meanwhile, back in the level of the restoration shed, Hazel and new volunteer Dave spent most of the day getting a cast ring out from the boiler top. Having been in there so long and as a cast metal part, it eventually came out in four bits!

In many bits is the Southern brake van which is currently undergoing a rebuild.

Finally, I found these on the footplate of loco Barrington.

I believe they are genuine old oil cans which hopefully are actually older than me! A niceinside  job to clean these up as Autumn turns to Winter which given the current situation may not be too long!