The Warrior Magazine

We expect to despatch The Warrior Issue 55 to you on Monday 5^th  December. The magazine contains a full account of the proceedings of our Annual General Meeting, which was held on 12^th November at Kidderminster Railway Museum.

Engineering

I will not repeat here the general engineering progress reported in The Warrior. However, since the Warrior went to press the repair work on the outside cylinders has now been completed, and all quality documentation required has been supplied, by Cast Iron Welding Services.

Finance 

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Engineering

Following recent discussions with William Cook Cast Products, proof machining of the new wheels has required further engineering drawings: after some resource problems this has now been completed and we are in active contact with the supplier this week to progress completion.Salvage of the usable components from the original wheelsets (balance weights and crank pins) has now been completed at West Shed. The long-awaited replacement driving wheel axle has now been shipped from South Africa and is en route to the UK. 

Finance

Six high-profile steam project groups with the common objective of delivering their respective locomotives fit for UK main line running have held a successful second meeting at CTL Seal Ltd in Sheffield.

All of the founder members attended :

Engineering

Over recent weeks management work on the planning and arrangement of important next steps for the chassis reassembly at West Shed has been unavoidably restricted by staff availability and unscheduled operations for 6233. However a West Shed team meeting this week agreed a set of actions, including progressing detailed arrangements for component testing with Boro Foundry and for wheelset assembly at South Devon Railway Engineering.  Arrangements for dragbox and rear cylinder cover replacement were also approved. 

Finance

At the first board meeting of the new financial year on 30 July a summary of our Quarter 1 results for 2022/2023 along with the accounts for 2021/22 was presented to the board for approval.

Prior to that, a meeting was held with our accountants at their offices in Stafford to receive their verdict:

‘The total income for the year showed a reduction from that in 2020/2021.  However, the charity has fared very well through the pandemic and is emerging in a healthy cash position. Now looking forward to external events coming back online and to utilising the cash reserves to progress work on the engine.’