The recent weather has rendered work in the loft something short of comfortable! I managed an hour on Friday before I gave up and retreated to the warmth of the house. I was able to spend some time working on the pannier, 7752. I had thought she was running badly because of bent / damaged axles, but upon deeper investigation I discovered that the chassis was bent! This is an old Mainline model that used a split chassis - one half of this was slightly bent near the motor mounts. I don't know how this happened, but after some brute force it looks pretty straight. She still doesn't run as smoothly as I'd like her to - but it was good enough for a couple of trial laps with the breakdown train.
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