After Russell's first public appearance in steam over the Whitsun holiday, and its subsequent trials, the locomotive was finally ready to go into the carriage shop for painting.
One of the carriage shop's features is the slightly raised wooden floor which keeps the room warmer and is far more comfortable to walk around, or kneel on, than bare concrete.
This is fine for carriages but narrow gauge locomotives have connecting rods which have very little clearance from the floor. So the locomotive could not just be pushed in. Luckily, the railway has short section of track used for transporting locomotives which has a ramp that can be fixed to one end. After the track section had been placed in the shop, the railway's Diesel locomotive pushed Russell onto the raised track. Murray is now preparing the bodywork ready for painting.
CJ
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