1. The last quarter began with tidying up at Tenterden prior to resuming work on Northiam station. Here debris round the restored buffer stop is removed.

2. Spring at Northiam - an evocative scene. Not only do the locomotives and rolling stock need attention but the building along the line demand continual repair, redecoration and maintenance if the railway is to prosper.

3. In April our first task was to pick up where we had left off with the repairs and painting of the front and ends of Northiam’s station building prior to our January change of location to Tenterden.

4. Richard leaves no eave unturned as he ensures a good coat of paint under, over and behind the eaves.

5. Ron returns to duty with his son giving a hand to complete the repair and re-instatement of the sash windows at the front of Northiam Station.

6. Oh Dear! What have we uncovered here? Extensive rot around the sash windows prevent the immediate fixing of the new cills in place until other work is done.

7. So the Northiam tea room closes its doors whilst the work is undertaken - this will entail a lot of Tuesdays.

8. Now this looks better! The new sashes are in place and repairs made to the surrounding timber work in the tea rooms kitchen area.

9. Humph and Mark paint on serenely as the focus of work shifts from the front of the station to the buildings facing track-side.

10. Some of us would like to think we are ranked with the great and good - gentlemen and ‘hocifers”! Humph and Mark turn their attention to the repaired canopy supports after completing the next coat on windows and doors. Will this job ever end we wonder !

11. Another landmark as the station painting nears the end and we turn our attention to the adjacent toilet block.

12. Out in force: Doors and frames as well as the canopy valance gets liberally coated with fresh, bright paint. Don’t stand under the ladders!

13. The last Northiam wall! Robin sets about preparatory work making good round the vent.

14. On early summer Tuesdays regular visitors to the platform were a pair of great tits whose nest was inside the platform scales. What a lesson in diligence they were... so we better get back to the painting lads!

15. Or in this case re-connecting the gutters and down-pipes over the old platform store.

16. With the station location board removed and the toilet vent repaired, Norman and Alan get on with painting the last wall of the station buildings.

17. The platform side of the station is now beginning to look really smart again.

18. Mark concentrates on getting the detail right as the tea room door gets a new top coat of paint.

19. Yes, we are the gang who completed this project plus one or two others who were absent on this particular sunny morning. This is the front of Northiam Station building.

20. ...and don’t forget the more modern but equally important toilet block. “Blame “ us for this (exterior) too.

21. Who forgot to complete top-coating the booking office sash window? - Norman puts it right.

22. Now for something completely different - still at Northiam. Ian starts on repairing and painting the platform seats - a long and fiddly task. Meanwhile Graham and Mark start on the 100s of metres of platform white line.

23. A long delayed task - replacing a broken wooden bollard alongside the station car park. First dig it out - Robin, Ron and Ian choose a nice hot day to start this task.

24. A nice coat of preserving black paint, completes this task. Surely that’s everything finished at Northiam now?