Work progresses on special school's train carriage cafe

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Project manager Jeremy Harris and head teacher Tim Williams talking about a project to transform a train carriage into a cafe at Five Acre Wood special needs school in Maidstone.

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00:00Yeah, so the strip-out started 29th of January and it took about a month to strip the carriage

00:10out and three 12-yard skips later, you know, these carriages were built not to come apart

00:16so it was a lot of hard work to strip it because it was also an old buffet carriage.

00:22So there's a lot of old stainless steel work in there and a lot of internal steel framing.

00:27So yeah, that's why it took so long to strip it out basically.

00:34So this is one of my favourite features, one of, not my only, features in the train carriage

00:39and it's the beautiful timeline of the transformation but also our work on the project and you can

00:44see at one end we've got the initial discussions with Mike Littleboy, Chair of Stones in the

00:50Community Trust and the conversation was very much around we want to do something different,

00:55I want to have something more than a hut that serves tea and coffee and Mike came up

01:00with a train carriage so I love that part of it and then we go through to August where

01:06it was craned in in August 2023 by a specialist team made up of amazing people from Legacy

01:12Rail, Resource Rail and so on all the way through to the present time and I think what's

01:20amazing about this is the timeline will probably grow and we will probably have more

01:25photos and more images in future as the next phases of this project take place.

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