Having put the 2251 chassis to one side while I wait for new handrail knobs, and having once again failed to buy the required plywood for the baseboard, today I have been working on wagons.

Fitting bill Bedford springie bits, along with the parkside / Cambrian brake bits to a 13t sr mineral, a parkside lner 5 plank, 1 plank and van, a Bachmann po mineral and a Bachmann conflat.

The latter two wagons have received replacement underframes from Cambrian leftovers, but still need brake gear / leavers.

Finally I fished up the underframes on a ratio iron mink, working from photos in the hmrs mink book I picked up at Bristol I gauge show last month. Going to be adding at least one more of these with replacement wooden doors at some point...

The other work today was some modifications to my work bench, a 3 inch wide raised platform was added to the back of the workbench. Fitted onto a 1.5 inch high strip of 1inch thick ply. Onto this a length of redundant concrete sleeper track has been glued, which will be wired up to a set of terminals to connect to a ex or dcc controller.

The final stage of my planned modifications to the bench is to add a better quality vice, and add holders on the right hand side for glue / flux bottles along with holes for files etc