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1) Work Schedule

NOTE: If you are coming to the Kempton Site for the first time, particularly on a Sunday, you must inform either Robert Leadbetter (Tuesdays) or John Morson (Sundays) so that they can make arrangements to let you in to the site - there is a closed security gate which you otherwise may be unable to get through (unless you are lucky and somebody with a 'pass' goes in - unlikely on a Sunday) except by arrangement.

Current and Future Tasks - February 2012

Recent changes/progress in RED

Category	Task Name	Task Description	Priority	Person I/C	Status

Estate	Railway Access Gate	Create Access double-gate in N.W.	Very High	Robert/Paul	New gate-posts needed
		corner of Paddock. New posts needed			Gate preparation commenced

	Station Site	Fill Walls with rubble + crushed concrete	High	Dick	Commenced

	Repair 'Paddock'	Practicularly on East side (combine with	Medium	?
	Fencing	Station Facilities ?)

	Loading Area	Add Crushed Concrete to slope by Loading	Medium	Douglas	Commenced
		Siding.

	Passenger Gate	Fit fully functioning gate at N.E. corner	Medium	Robert	Temporary Gate in place

	Gates by Horse Corral	Install gates-post	Medium	Dick S/Douglas	3 Posts in place - awaiting cementing


Track	Concrete sleepers	Create Concrete Sleepers for Loop line.	On-Going	Dick S	Production On-Going
Paddock/
Hanworth Loop	Point Levers: Y points &	Install Point levers: King Point	High	Douglas	Lever need re-attachment after mods.
	King Point	Y point (Running Shed/Loading Siding)		Douglas	Needs adjustment

	Fettle recovered Track	Wire-brush/Clean/paint track fittings	On-Going	John M	Long-Term, on-going task
	parts. (ex. TWI)	ex. TWI for reuse e.g Hanworth Loop		Jim H	Progressing Steadily

	Main-Line-Hanworth Loop	LayTrack past Horse corral	Medium	Douglas	Stock-pile rail/sleepers/pads/spacers
		to Station (E)			for 'push' past horse corral

	Main-Line-Hanworth Loop	Lay Track from Station (E) via. W to Corral	High	Douglas	ca 17 lengths laid


Locomotives	Renovate Compressor	Renovate the Bristol/Perkins	Low	Jim H	Commenced
(incl.all		Air compressor		Chris H
powered items)
	Lancing-Bagnall 'Toer'	Recover LB Tug for possible renovation	Medium	?	In Green Container awaiting start.


Rolling Stock	Renovate 292	Continue renovation of bogie-flat No.292	Medium	John M	under-way
(all. non-powered)
	'Devon' Coach	Re-furbish coach body/ Lower roof / rebuild	Medium	John M	Re-build commenced
		seating including wheelchair access.			Frame & bogies progressing

	Renovate 295	Renovate Bogie-flat No.295	Low	?	awaiting above

	End Tipper	Repair no-tipping beam	High	Jim H	Needs robust re-fitting

	Along-Track Tipper	Repair Tipper Body - Repair/Modify Frame	Low	John M	Tipper Body lifted off for repair


Miscellaneous	Ron Irving Estate	Recover Equipment, Tools etc. from	Medium	Robert L	under-way
		RI Workshop

	Shuttering Boards	'Used' Shuttering Boards needed.	Medium	Robert	For floor in Hanworth Running Shed

2) Working Parties


Working Parties are usually at Kempton every Tuesday and some Thursdays (Ring Robert on 020 8979 5003) and every Sunday (Ring John on 07976 2571870).

Become a Member of the Yahoo! Group MWBRS and you will receive information on the tasks scheduled for the next Sunday and Tuesday and Thursday Working Parties. Fortnightly or Weekly updates on what is happening at Kempton are available for Members through the Egroup.

There may be working parties at other times and at short notice as the need occurs.

Filling the End Tipper with ballast at the Loading Siding and.....

.........tipping it into place at the N.E. corner of the Hanworth Loop



Testing the re-built Turntable - Dec 2010

Breaking the reinforced concrete sleeper

out of the mould - Dec 2010.

Members restoring bogie wagon 292 for transporting rail.                       Photo: Jim Hewett

Working Party
     Members previously erecting an end wall to the old locoshed.

                                                                            Photo: R. Leadbetter

At the present time (Winter 2011) work is concentrated on laying the 400 yd "Hanworth Loop" in the Paddock, including casting our own reinforced concrete sleepers.

See the <Past Progress> page to what has been achieved, the <News> page for the most recent advances. See the notice above for the <Work Schedule> for up-to-date activities list.

The first lengths of Track covered with snow, December 2010

Installing the re-built turntable on the Museum Site,

adjusting the fishplates on the "tunnel rail" point.

If you are interested in joining a working party then please

check first by contacting Robert Leadbetter

on 020 8979 5003.