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NEWS

  Updated 20th August 2010

 

 

  The latest NewsBrief No.30 is the most important yet and is now available to members.  If you wish to read it, click on the Membership logo on the left-hand side of the screen. 

  Previous NewsBriefs are available on line :     No.29 April 2010  and  No.28b February 2010

 

 

 

 

The TWI Railway - Ongoing news:

 

We have now lifted all "available" track at The Welding Institute (TWI).  Here is the plan of the railway and a few photographs of the lifting progress:

   

 

The letters on the pictures below refer to those in the Plan of TWI Railway above :

  23 July 2010    

   

     A: The TWI engine shed & carriage storage

 

 

       B: Sometime recovering points needs some personal

              recovery time!

 

 

 

    C1:  The loop points are almost invisible.

 

   C2:    And now the point can be clearly seen

 

 C3 : Jim un-does one of the last fishplates on the

              'Restaurant Loop', prior to lifting.

 

D: Moving recovered rail to the roadside

 

 

 

     F:  The 'Y' point of the viaduct loop

 

        G: Still plenty of digging to do

 

 

 

       E: Now the rails are just visible

 

 

      H: Hard at work dismantling the viaduct

 

  The first lorry-load has arrived from the TWI Railway, unfortunately just the Viaduct, no rails as yet.

  Just to remind what it used to look like and what it looks like now, and a couple in-between:

 

What it looked like before we started

Working on the Viaduct

Welch's Crane makes short work of the task

The TWI Viaduct site is now clear....

...and is now under the A316 at Kempton

 

 

We are now getting mechanical assistance to lift the track - this is the 'part-long-welded' section being raised

 

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Nearer to Home :

 

 August 2010

 

  Peter, Brian and Keith unload the ballast
  from Bernard's trailer......

 ..........and the job is done - the Terram is covered and the

     base layer of ballast is ready for track-laying

 

 

 

 June 2010

 

   The good news is that Planning Permission has been granted for the construction of the Hanworth Loop:

 

Newly laid track will be shown in Blue.

 

 

While we have been waiting for planning permission we have not been idle and have removed the turf, laid "Terram" (a special geo-textile) and laid ballast on top - there is still more ballast waiting to be applied

 

  Letters on the pictures below refer to approximate locations on the Paddock/Hanwoth Loop Plan above

   (the track plan is only indicative)  

Updated June 2010     

A. John Morsen and Robert Leadbetter talking to the

      ‘locals’ as they erect the electric fence.

 

 

 

 

 

B. The ‘Team’ installing the security box for the

battery to power the electric fence.

The electric fence in place and functioning for several weeks and we started work on ‘digging’ the Hanworth loop, on 26th April 2010, clearing the turf and topsoil.

C:  Mich Hughes digs around the N.East curve.

 

 

 

 

 

 

           In three days the circuit was dug, the Terram laid and

           sufficient ballast laid on top to keep the Geotextile in

           place and (in places) enough to keep it from de-grading

            in the sun.

D. Douglas at the South end of the Station Site.         

 

May 2010