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NOTICE BOARD ARCHIVE FOR 1998-99

24 Oct 1998:
Train Crazy?
Helsby Open Day a Success
New Picture Report
Winter Timetables available (sort of)
Welcome, Your Majesty
First Things First

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OCTOBER 1998 ARCHIVE
Welcome, Your Majesty
Railtours Real and Unreal
Train's big ceremony is derailed
Don't believe all you read...
Helsby Open Day a Success
Dave Sallery's Lineside Report
Train Crazy?
Model news

24 Nov 1999:
Thanks!
Chester Depot closing
Magazine watch
Dave Sallery's Lineside Report
Wailing and Lamentations

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A King to visit Holyhead!
Wailing and Lamentations
Dave Sallery's Lineside Report
Chester Depot closing
Magazine watch
What's in a name?
Hell on Wheels!
07.42 from Holyhead: the full story

28 Dec 1999:
Christmas Hibernation
37s over Cannock
Locomotive Curiosities
Dave Sallery's lineside notes
Special Trains Roundup
Manchester Piccadilly modifications
Doing the Pools
Loch Rannoch's back ... and other changes
Book News
Virgin castigated
Dave Sallery's lineside report

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Dave Sallery's lineside report
Virgin castigated
Loch Rannoch's back ... and other changes
Doing the Pools
A glance at the future
Cinema News...
Special Trains Roundup
Chester shed vanishing
Dave Sallery's lineside notes
Locomotive Curiosities
Christmas Hibernation

28 Jan 1999:
Loch Rannoch ... coming soon?
Virgin Trains should order more trains for North Wales now

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Shipping Forecast
Xmas by the sea for 37422
Virgin Trains should order more trains for North Wales now
The Lein Amlwch Story
King Edward I invades North Wales
Rolling Stock Notes
More Press-watching

27 Feb 1999:
A Day to Forget - report by Dave Sallery
Fare Offers
Rugger Revives Railway
Steam Up! (or not)
Beginning of the end?
Day Trip to Bangor
Magazine Watch

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Magazine Watch
Beginning of the end?
Llandudno Junction cinema proposal
Rugger Revives Railway
Steam Up! (or not)
Steam Latest
Daubing...
Sunday 21 February: Notes by Alan Crawshaw
A Day to Forget - report by Dave Sallery
Fare Offers

16 Mar 1999:
Dave Sallery's Lineside View
60 007...  and 60007!
Deltic to meet a King!
Book Review by John Murray
Shed Ahoy!
A Subterranean Experience
Bangor events - Report by Alan Crawshaw
A Steamy Weekend
Electro-Diesel News and Chester chronicles
Virgin Customer Care?
Sunday Selection

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MARCH 1999 ARCHIVE
Sunday Selection
Virgin Customer Care?
Electro-Diesel News and Chester chronicles
A Steamy Weekend
The Good Old Days
Bangor events - Report by Alan Crawshaw
A Subterranean Experience
Shed Ahoy!
Book Review by John Murray
Rhyl Miniature Railway to reopen soon
Trials and tribulations
Deltic to meet a King!
60 007...  and 60007!
Dave Sallery's Lineside View
News, Good and Bad

30 Apr 1999:
Lineside Notes from Nick Gurney
Holyhead Sunday 47
Miscellany
Off the Rails
Goodbye to Oxley
Believe it or not dept.
Running Out of Steam
Vandalism
As Seen on TV
Web News
More Cutbacks ahead
Steam and other Specials
Pier News
Easter locomotive extras
Railway Development Society North Wales Branch

30 May 1999:
'Final' Summer begins
Lineside Notes by Nick Gurney
The Gala Continues
Nick Gurney's Lineside Notes
Wednesday 26 May: 47 627 Light engine to rescue 47 847
Two days on the Coast, by Guy Gorton
Lineside Notes by Nick Gurney
Lineside Notes by Nick Gurney
All the - depressing -  news
Lineside Notes
Steam Notes #1
Steam Notes #2
Model News
Lineside Notes by Nick Gurney
The Ghost on the Coast
Friday Lunchtime with Alan Crawshaw
Lineside Notes by Nick Gurney
Charter Train News
Lineside Notes
Llandudno events
Nuclear Mystery ... solved?
Death on the Line
Engine Change at Crewe
Lineside Notes from Nick Gurney

28 Jun 1999:
All Change again!
A Weekend to Watch
Nick Gurney's Lineside Notes
Monday 21 June: 37 379, 37 429 and 37 415
Double whammy
John Dawson's locomotive report
Saturday 19 June
Class 66 to Mostyn
Nick Gurney's Lineside Notes
Steam News
Nick Gurney's Lineside Notes
Steam in Grosvenor Park
The Duo Ticket and the Awesome Foursome

12 Jun 1999:
New - Cheap fares from First North Western
The Class 66 situation
Timetable charts ready
Locomotive Report by John Dawson
Nick Gurney's Lineside Notes
Vandalism again
Nick Gurney's Lineside Notes
John Dawson sent the following report for 18.00 Monday:
Chronicle of Saturday 5 June
Nick Gurney's Lineside Notes
Locomotive Notes by John Dawson
Irish Mail Misdelivered
Nick Gurney's Lineside Notes
Final Summer begins...
Tuesday 1 June status report by John Dawson
Locomotive status for the morning of 1.6.99

12 Jun 1999:

30 Jul 1999:
Rock 'Rail
Shocking shambles
Death Wish
Timetable Graphs on-line
Incident at Conwy revisited
Fun at Chester
Locomotive Report by John Dawson, 21 July
Nick Gurney's Lineside Notes
Sunday 18 July - Pictures by John Lewis
Nick Gurney's Lineside notes for 17 July
Locomotive report by John Dawson: 16 July
Lineside Notes by Nick Gurney

15 Jul 1999:
37401 1D99 to Chester 11A
Lineside Notes by Nick Gurney
Locomotive Report for 14 July by John Dawson
37 403 - 1G95/1D67 46A
Nick Gurney's Lineside Notes
Locomotive Report by John Dawson
Picture News
Incident at Conwy
Lineside Notes for July 8 - by Nick Gurney & John Dawson
John Dawson's Locomotive Report, 7 July
News from the Purple Zone
Editorial
Turn, Turn, Turn
Nick Gurney's Lineside Notes -  Week ending 3 July
Chester Tramway Exhibition
Tailpiece

22 Aug 1999:
Double Header ... not!
Locomotive Report by John Dawson
A blast from the past
Nick Gurney's Lineside Notes
Thursday 19 August: FNW 37's at work today were 37 412
A glimpse of the future
Sunday Timetable graphs ready
Lineside Notes by Nick Gurney
Deltics at Chester
Driver John...
Timetable Graphs - new version
More about 37 154
Nick Gurney's Lineside Notes
3 August:
2 August:
Worth Valley 37s
Rock 'Rail

26 Sep 1999:
New Timetable - No more blue and grey locos
Frieght inches forward
Another Goodbye
Letter from America
Steam notes
Picture Report news
Nick Gurney's Lineside Notes
Monday 13 September: 37/4's working for FNW were 37 408
Class 37/4 on Friday 17 September:
Freight news, by Dave Sallery
Classic Diesels on the East Lancashire
Nick Gurney's Lineside Notes
Monday- Friday
Saturday
More freight news
John Dawson's Class 37 Locomotive Report for 8 September
6 September:
Locomotive Naming at Chester
The Virgin Future
John Dawson's Locomotive Report for 7 September
Nick Gurney's Lineside Notes
Meeting with fNW management  - Wed September 1, 1999
Nick Gurney's Lineside Notes:
Picture News from Alan Crawshaw

30 Oct 1999:
Another Deltic ... not
Book Review by John Murray
Freight report by Tony Flusk
Web News
Passenger notes by Rowan Crawshaw
Locomotive Report by John Dawson
Nick Gurney's Lineside Notes
The end approacheth
Sardines tomorrow
Trains lengthened
Wednesday events - report by Tony Flusk
The Slate Miner, 17 October 1999 - Report by Alan Crawshaw
Busy Saturday - notes by Alan Crawshaw
Nick Gurney's Lineside Notes
In the Press
Single Double
Timetable Graphs updated
John Dawson's Locomotive Report for Saturday 9 October
Bovine Incident at Bangor Sunday 3 October
Winter Timetable etc.
News Report by John Dawson

29 Nov 1999:
Class 37 Status Report by John Dawson
Traffic Report by Tony Flusk
Charlie's Christmas Present?
Traffic Notes by Rowan Crawshaw
Saturday 20 November:
Sunday 21 November:
Ferry Timetable problems ahead
More obituaries
Traffic Report by Tony Flusk
Another special of which we are informed is:
A load of scrap
The North Wales Railway Circle
Double-header in the shortening days
Public Relations
Freight news by Tony Flusk
Locomotive Report by John Dawson

30 Dec 1999:
Last Days of the Century
'Plastic' problems
Class 66/5s to work on the Coast - Report by Tony Flusk
All pictures of these workings welcome!
Chester freight sighting
Irish Mancunian to reappear
Vandalism on the Buses
Christmas Eve notes, by John Murray
Service to Mold
And of course ... 
Class 175 news
 Irish Mancunian lives!
Traffic Report by Tony Flusk
37 401 Mary Queen of Scots and  37 421
Sunday 19 December:
Boat Train report by John Murray
The Class 37 world fades
Freight Report by Tony Flusk
Charlie's Chrismas Present Pt.2
Buy a house ... with railway!
GROSVENOR PARK MINIATURE RAILWAY, CHESTER
Class 101 Diagrams
Charlie's Christmas Present arrives!
Locomotive Notes by John Dawson
Freight Report by Tony Flusk
Links for Net-Wanderers




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