Despite the extreme cold weather, work continues at Eveleigh. This week a full set of new wooden steps have been manufactured for HKB813.
All the original wooden steps were rotten and in need of replacement.


The new steps were cut and machined to shape using the woodwork machinery on site. All of the new timber was then primed prior to being fitted back on the carriage.

New step treads have been machined to shape, predrilled and primed ready for fitting to the new steps.

All the step brackets were needle gunned, primed and painted gloss black prior to the new steps being fitted.

A guard’s doorway step fitted without treads applied.

Another step is fitted with the treads screwed into place.

This vehicle is almost ready for painting.