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Post date / 2019
- The new roller shutter is installed behind the front doors, and is tested in situ.
- In readiness for the move, equipment and materials in store behind the panel are moved forward...just a few trips up to the new loft then!
- The main row of lights, which will sit directly above the Panel frontage, are installed prior to moving the panel to its final position.
- The second loft space (above the east end of the panel) is similarly fitted, meaning both loft spaces are nearly completed - excellent work!
- Let there be light! (2) - Stephen Lear admires the latest loft installation.
- Let there be light! (1) - GWS electrician David Brown test fits the first LED fitment to the Panel Room suspended ceiling.
- The previously-seen display boards are fitted into their final positions, with the displays themselves well underway.
- Ever more ceiling tiles become fitted in place, with the 1980s panel room atmosphere truly starting to take shape.
- More restored exhibits take their place in the Brunel Room.
- The panel room double doors' lintel is expertly fashioned.
- Meanwhile, in the 'Bristol Room', Chris Chalet of the GWS Bristol Group continues the hard work of preparing the Bristol East Panel interactive exhibit - good stuff!
- A view from the entrance foyer into the 'Brunel Room', as newly-redundant scaffolding makes its way out of the building.
- New boards are fabricated and painted, ready for future displays.
- With the air-conditioning units in, surrounding ceiling tiles start to be installed, having been cut to size accordingly.
- As if the double doors weren't enough for the GWS volunteers, the simulator room's door is intalled, and just awaits some final fittings.
- ...which in turn are linked into the building management system to keep us all cosy (especially in March!).
- The result of very careful planning and design work, the new air conditioning units in the panel room are installed...
- Excellent restoration is evident on these reclaimed GW doors, in readiness for their installation as our panel room external access doors.
- Building works continue apace, as does work on the installation of new exhibits - these broad-gauge relics really do look the part!
- Danny Scroggins carries DRC Civil Engineering Manager Richard Antliff across the newly-created threshold into the Swindon Panel room!
- The Bristol Room's well-disguised air-conditioning unit is also installed.
- With the lamp post in shot, the sandbag wall for the air-raid shelter steps is rebuilt around the new electrics cabinet.
- An updated building front entrance view, as fencing and railing posts continue to be worked upon.
- David Brown and Richard Beacham tackle the installation of conduit through the lamp post, which will illuminate the way into the new centre.
- Around the corner, a final view of the finished side walkway, complete with air-conditioning equipment (well-hidden from most views by the carefully-placed wall section on the left).
- Not to be forgotten, the panel room suspended ceiling is pushed ever closer to completion, courtesy of Jamie Karslake.
- Another great moment, as the reclaimed GW doors for the panel room are installed, with some fitments already in evidence.
- The Frome North Box plate is mounted to the wall, joining the growing number of restored Brunel Room exhibits.
- GWS Civil Engineering Manager demonstrates the fully fitted-out double doors, set of keys in hand!
- Taken a mere ten days before the Grand Opening, the Swindon Panel Box plate is seen in its final position, with the home signal waiting to greet our first visitors!
- The completed suspended ceiling (with one tile temporarily removed for access) - fantastic!
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