Warwickshire Industrial Locomotive Preservation Trust Charity No 1201400 REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER 2024
The Warwickshire Industrial Locomotive Preservation Trust (new CIO) was registered by the Charity Commissioners on 21st December 2022, No 121400. The Charities objectives are,
To promote the preservation for the benefit of the public of steam locomotives or rolling stock of historic interest.
To educate the public about steam locomotives or rolling stock of historic interest and the contributions made by them to the industrial life of this country.
Legal and Administrative Information
The following Trustees were elected at the annual general meeting held in April 2024 at the Kidderminster Railway Museum.
Chairman N. Cripps, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands. Secretary D. Cooke, Towcester, Northamptonshire. Treasurer R. Jones, Warwick. Membership Secretary (Acting) D. Cooke Trustees D. Eve, Alcester, Warwickshire. C. Jones, Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire. R. Cooke, Towcester, Northamptonshire A. Poole, Stourport, Worcestershire B. Shaw, Derby, from 2 July 2024
The Trustees held two face to face meeting during the year, one was to review progress with the Warwickshire overhaul at Bewdley. Additional email, and zoom meetings were held.
The Trustees coopted B. Shaw at their meeting on 2 July2024.
Principle Activities
In May SVR moved HE 686 to the Engine House at Highley for public display.
The year 2024 has seen continued progress made at SVR Bewdley with the restoration of MW2047. The newly remetalled crosshead slipper blocks were successfully machined in January and the footplate was given a coat of black gloss paint in February. The new LH Crosshead was rough machined in the machine shop at Bewdley. In march work started on producing a complete new set of valve and piston glands and machining of the new LH crosshead made more progress. Machining of the new LH Crosshead was completed. In May HE686 was finally removed from store and moved back into The Engine House at Highley.
Later in May the leading sandboxes and trailing sand pipes were refitted. In June the leading sand valves were fitted and new sand pipes attached. More restoration work on the underside of saddletank started in August and work also started on machining the new RH crosshead. The Warwickshire nameplates were removed in September and new piston rings were delivered to Bewdley in October followed by
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trial fitting in cylinder bores. More work was carried out on piston rods in November and in December reversing way shaft was removed from the locomotive for some rectification work.
Finance
The financial report for WILPT is attached as an appendix. In an endeavour to counteract the banking industries exceptionally low interest payments for funds on deposit the Treasurer has continued to move money into and out of deposit accounts.
Educational Activity
The WILPT website has been kept up to date with regular reports on the restoration progress of MW2047 and is available to view at: www.wilt.jimdo.com
The WILPT Group facebook page has also had regular updates and can be found under:- facebook.com/groups/525132404750071
At the invitation of SVR the Trust mounted a display and provided an information desk at the behind the scenes event at Bewdley in April and a stakeholders event at the Engine House in June.
Governance
The Trustees have kept under review the education, child protection & GRDP policies.
As agreed at the AGM held in April WILPT has now taken over from WILT and WILPG. WILPG has closed down but closing WILT is progressing disappointingly slowly.
Membership
Now stands at thirty eight. However, some subscriptions not yet paid to WILPT for 2024.
Programme for 2025
We will continue with restoration of MW2047 at SVR Bewdley and support HE686 now that it is now back on public display in The Engine House at SVR Highley. Discussions are progressing about contributing to ‘Rail 200’ and mounting a public display associated with the centenary of Warwickshire in 2026
Annual General meeting
This report was approved at the Annual General Meeting held on April 13[th] 2025
D Cooke Secretary
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