In 50030’s generator room the floor mounted conduits had been badly damaged (cut). These have all now been removed. The floor is seen following removal of the conduits ready for cleaning and painting. The conduits will be replaced with a mixture of those salvaged from 500023, 50030 and 50040 prior to its scrapping.

In the generator room of both locos the potentiometer stand had been bent at sometime, most likely when the ETH/Auxiliary generator sets were removed. With the aid of some heavy wood and a heavy duty jack this steel frame has been straightened, welded, cleaned, refitted and painted in both loco’s. This picture shows the repaired frame in 50030.

50030's brake frame is seen in August 2011 stripped of all of the components that had been temporarily fitted to it in order to allow it to be repainted. Teh exhauster has also been disconnected ready to be lifted and exchanged for the overhauled unit at Bowers.

Another task that has been completed for both 50030 and 50029 is production of replacement fault panel indicator light covers. Three complete sets have been produced, which along with the set previously made, is sufficient for all four cabs. This job is a perfect illustration of why some things take longer than you might think. The nine panels shown in the picture, (apart from including 21 blue lenses which are quite rare in scrap yards) are made up of an astonishing 198 components, sourced form a variety of classes of locomotives (anything but class 50!).

This is the board mounting the ETH overvolt relay (HOVR) & resistors Z23, Z24 & Z69, which is seen in April 2011 shortly after it had been test mounted in 50030's electrical cubicle, but had not yet been properly fitted and wired in. The components on the board have all been cleaned, checked, tested and overhauled as appropriate.

This picture shows the board containing the overload interlock relay OIR, generator field relay GFR & no.1 motor blower relay BMR1, after fitting into 50030's cubicle. All of the components have been serviced and are seen in the process of being wired into the cubicle.

During the summer of 2011 work was started on tidying up the No 2 cab. Amongst other jobs the inside of the headcode box was cleaned up and painted. The headcode blind inspection panels were also painted, new glass fitted, and refitted to the loco. In previous years work in this area had been restricted to stripping out the old lamp mounting brackets, fitting replacement marker light lenses, and sealing up all of the leaks around the bottom of the headcode panel, which is not visible in this picture.

Here the No 1 cab secondman's droplight and quarterlight windows are seen on 50030. At the time scissors and window catch on the droplight had recently been repaired. A major task in this area that kicked off around this time was the woodwork. Whilst work had been undertaken to fit the windows to make the loco's look more presentable, the woodwork in many places was in a very poor condition, or simply missing, which can be seen in this picture (around the quarterlight area) before work started on it. All four of the sets of cab windows needed significant work undertaking on the woodwork which was a task started around this time.

This is the main wheelslip relay board with it's associated (silver) resistors above, and the 150amp rad fan fuse just visible behind the resistors. The components are a mixture of overhauled parts and new components and are seen in the process of being wired to the cubicle.

This picture illustrates the fuse & MCB compartment doors on 50030's electrical cubicle after Chris had fettled them to make them fit and actually open and close properly!

As with 50030, (whilst in the swing of it), the fuse cupboard doors on 50029 have been un-seized.

Also in 50029 a replacement cubicle door that contains all of the rotary switches has been sourced (the only item missing is the ammeter), new hinges have been fitted and the door fitted to the cubicle.

Here the No 2 cab secondman's quarterlight woodwork is seen shortly after work had started to replace the hardwood frames. Two new pieces are seen being trial fitted. Carpentry was one of the last skills that we would have thought of as being essential, but there is a surprisingly large amount of wood in a Class 50's cab, and most of ours needs replacing.

Finally on the electrical front prior to Andy permanently fitting the reverser into Repulse, it is being used as a template to aid the fabrication of some of the missing bits necessary to complete the cannibalised reverser that we intend using in 50029. The new components in the process of being fabricated are seen along side some of the original items.