THE NORTH WALES COAST
RAILWAY: CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Rheilffordd arfordir gogledd Cymru: Calendr
Groups and their meeting places
8E Association
Meetings are held in The Gladstone Club, Station Road, Northwich, CW9 5RB at 7:45pm prompt on the 2nd Tuesday of each month - excluding July and August. Admission is free.
Altrincham Electric Railway Preservation Society lectures are held at Altrincham Methodist Church Hall, Barrington Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 1HF. Car park Springfield Road or short walk from Altrincham Bus/Rail/Metrolink Interchange. Talks commence at 7.30 p.m.. Refreshments (coffee/tea and biscuits) are provided inclusive of the admission price, £3.00 - Free for AERPS members (Show membership card).
Clwyd Railway Circle
A programme of illustrated talks on the first Friday of the month from September to April at the Jubilee Community Centre, 45 Seabank Drive, Prestatyn, LL19 7PP. Visitors Welcome: Admission £2. Anybody requiring information about the programme should contact: David Jones Tel: 01244 537440 or email: lindley1944[at]gmail.com
The Dee & Mersey Group of the Society holds meetings in Chester on the last Wednesday of January, February, March, September, October and November each year in tghe Falcon Inn, Chester at 7.40pm.. Contact Geoff Lake for further details at
glake66[at]tiscali.co.uk.
Llandudno and Conwy Valley Railway Society
All indoor evening meetings will take
place on the Second Thursday of the Month at The
Sport
and
Social
Club,
off
Victoria
Drive,
Llandudno
Junction starting at 19:30. Contact Arthur Jones: mazeppa
[at] btopenworld.com
Locomotive
Club
of
Great
Britain
(North
West)
St David's Social Centre, Wargrave Road, Newton-le-Willows has decided to close it from the end of June, pending an appeal
from its members. Contact the address below for details of future meetings.
All meetings commence at 7:30 pm and a donation towards expenses of £2 would be appreciated. Contact: lcgb.nw[at]blueyonder.co.uk
Merseyside Model Railway Society meets in Birkenhead. Visitors are welcome by prior arrangement - they should contact the Club first via the Society website.
Merseyside Railway History
Group
North Wales N Gauge Group
The model railway group for N Gauge modellers. Meets in St Michael's Church Hall, Rosemary Lane, Conwy at 7.00pm on the third Monday of each month (December
excepted). A warm welcome awaits novices and experienced N Gauge modellers alike. Contact 01492 572633 for further information.
North
Wales
Railway
Circle, Bangor,
meets on Tuesday
evenings,
generally the 1st and 3rd of the month, except December) at 19.30 for a
prompt 19:45
start. Meetings take place in the Railway
Institute,
Euston Road (just above the Royal Mail buildings). It's about 5-10
minutes walk
from the railway
station: turn right on to the road and then right
again
under the railway
bridge, bear right into Penchwintan Road, then first
right into Euston Road (no road name sign); the Railway
Institute is a
short way up the hill next to the Royal Mail delivery office. There is
a car park.. Information from Dave Lindsay on 01407 740646 or
lindsays262[at]btinternet.com
RCTS:
Railway
Correspondence and
Travel
Society, Merseyside and North Wales
Branch
Both Society members and non-members are very welcome to attend our meetings
Shrewsbury-Chester Rail
Users' Association
Shropshire Railway Society.
Meetings are held in Shrewsbury at the Gateway Education & Arts Centre, Chester St in the 'Mary Margaret Room”. usually on the second and fourth Friday of each month, start at 1930hrs and finish at 2200hrs. 'Non-members are welcome to a maximum of two meetings, and are asked to make a small voluntary contribution to society funds.'
The Stephenson Locomotive Society. North Western Area
Meetings held on Saturdays at 14:00 in The Friends’ Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester M2 5NS. Visitors welcome. Further information from the Meetings Secretary: Mike Blease, blease[at]mighty-micro.co.uk
Monthly meetings are on the second Monday of the month, in the
Catholic
Social Club at St Marys
Church
Regent St, Wrexham, opposite Grosvenor Road traffic lights starting at
19.45.
The
venue provides for a comfortable and convivial atmosphere with adequate
off the street car parking. Annual subscription for Society members
£5
all classes. Visitors welcome on payment of £1.50 at the door.
Last update 9 January 2012
To the North Wales Coast main page : To The Noticeboard
This page is a handy reference for the dates of coming events, many of which will have been first mentioned on the Notice Board page. Details of special or unusual trains, meetings of societies, and anything else of railway interest in the North Wales area, will appear here. Organisers, please send in your details. We will include a website/email address or telephone number for confirmation wherever possible: this website takes no responsibilty for the accuracy of the information contained here, or for the cancellation of trains or events.
Special
thanks to the Wrexham
Railway
Society for their invaluable assistance with this page. For a
regularly updated calendar of steam runs around the UK, we recommend www.uksteam.info.
Note about excursion trains:
the
times
below
are
supplied
in
good
faith
from
the
operators'
websites.
However,
trains
can
vanish
from
the
schedules
due
to
engineering
works
or
lack
of
bookings,
even
a
few
days
before
the
advertised
date,
and
we
may
well
not
get
to
know
about
it.
Always
check
the operator website, and don't plan ahead to fly across the world
confident that a particular train will run!
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | June | July | Aug | Sep | Oct| Nov | Dec
January 2012
Tuesday 10 January 8E Railway Association Karl Jauncey & Dave Richards from PSOV present Mainline Steam 2011
Thursday 12 January Llandudno and Conwy Valley Railway Society Society Tribute - the late Bill Rear
Friday 13 January Altrincham Electric Railway Preservation Society "Steam Across Java in 1980" by John Sloane
Monday 16 January RCTS Chester Barry Shore: Terminus Part 3
Barry continues his Terminus series, this time off the Network, The Preservation Scene and offshore including the Isle of Man and Ireland.
Saturday 21 January Stephenson Locomotive Society Area A G M followed by: Professor Colin Divall - Down the American Road? Industrial Research on the LMS, 1923-1947 The Big Four are often criticised for an over-reliance on traditional forms of engineering. However by the late 1930s the LMS had developed a sizeable Research Department dealing with a wide range of technical problems. This talk examines the Department's origins and activities, and asks how successful it was.
Wednesday 25 January Ffestiniog Railway Society Dee & Mersey Group. Narrow Gauge Rlys in Central & Eastern Europe. Geoff Morris
Thursday 26 January Merseyside Railway History Group Allan Moore : Lost Stations of St. Helens
February 2012
Friday 3 February Clwyd Railway Circle Geoff Morris: Australian Railways Today. A digital presentation of Geoff's visits to Australia in 2009 and 2010 featuring main line and preserved steam in South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland and also a look at the some of the modern scene.
Thursday 9 February Llandudno and Conwy Valley Railway Society Ron Watson Jones"Irish Mail Crash Penmaenmawr - Aug 50"/"A Ron Miscellany"
Friday 10 February Altrincham Electric Railway Preservation Society "Great Western Railway Lines in South and Mid-Wales" by Tony Icke
Monday 13 February. Wrexham Railway Society Sixties Steam on Steam - Barry Shore will give a digital presentation based on his b&w negatives from the 60s with shed visits around the UK and the final days of steam at Lostock Hall.
Tuesday 14 February 8E Railway Association Colin White from B&R Video presents Archive Cine Film from 50's & 60's
Saturday 18 February Stephenson Locomotive Society Bob Barnard The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway – Then & Now. From 1898 this well-equipped 2 foot gauge line climbed into the foothills of Exmoor, intitially independent but later under the Southern Railway, until its sudden closure in 1935. Since 2004, trains have run on a section again. Bob Barnard, a local L&B enthusiast and North West group organiser, will tell the line's story in pictures old and new.
Monday 20 February RCTS Chester Stephen Gay: Walking the line, discovering lost railways. Stephen travels from Sheffield with a slide
show on walking old railways with his faithful German Shepherd dog Wrawby. The show includes the S&D, Scarborough to Whitby, rambling in Scotland to glorious Devon plus a very varied local selection
Thursday 23 February Merseyside Railway History Group Graham Briggs: Steaming Through Britain
Wednesday 29 February Ffestiniog Railway Society Dee & Mersey Group. Operating a 40 mile railway. Phil Brown.
March 2012
Friday 2 March Clwyd Railway Circle AGM followed by Photo Competition and Members Night. Members are invited to give a 15 minute presentation of their choice, any format welcomed. Please book your slot no later than 17th February by contacting David Jones.
Thursday 8 March Llandudno and Conwy Valley Railway Society Geoff Morris "30 years west of Swansea"
Friday 9 March Altrincham Electric Railway Preservation Society "The Railways of the Peak District" by Dr Les Nixon
Monday 12 March. Wrexham Railway Society Vintage Steam Film Show - Colin White presents a selection of 8mm cine films with his unique commentary about the abilities of the loco crews in the 1860s.
Tuesday 13 March 8E Railway Association Geoff Coward presents Back To The 60's
Saturday 17 March Stephenson Locomotive Society Ken Grainger Rhapsody in Blue – The Great Northern Railway of Ireland. A whistle-stop tour, in colour, of the Great Northern network, mainly by steam but also including not unattractive diesel railcars and delightful half-cab railbuses, as well as the Hill of Howth open-top electric trams and not forgetting the immortal horse-drawn Fintona tram.
Monday 19 March RCTS Chester Gordon Davies: American Wanderings in 2010/11/ A digital presentation of Gordon’s two visits to the USA. Featuring commuter trains, extremely long freight and coal trains, preserved steam, a monorail, trams plus his visit to the dentist!
Thursday 29 March Merseyside Railway History Group AGM Members Slides
April 2012
Friday 6 April Clwyd Railway Circle Les Nixon: 45 Years of Railway Photography (part 1). The acclaimed railway photographer and entertaining speaker will treat us to an evening of nostalgia, including pre 1968 steam, foreign, modern traction and some preservation, the accent is on the unusual.
Tuesday 10 April 8E Railway Association Stephen Gay presents Walking The Line - Discovering Lost Railways
Thursday 12 April Llandudno and Conwy Valley Railway Society Clive Myers "The Llandudno & Colwyn Bay Electric Railway"
Friday 13 April Altrincham Electric Railway Preservation Society North West Film Archive Evening featuring historic footage of buses, aircraft, trains and trams across the North West
Monday 16 April RCTS Chester Branch AGM (Members only)
Thursday 26 April Merseyside Railway History Group Geoff Coward: Quiz and informal evening
May 2012
Saturday 5 May Excursion Mid-Cheshire Rail Users' Association. The Lincolnshire Poacher Railtour to Lincoln, Wainfleet and Skegness from most Mid-Cheshire Line stations. Further Details at: www.mcrua.org.uk
Tuesday 8 May 8E Railway Association Les Nixon presents The A to Z of Railways Around the World
Thursday 10 May Llandudno and Conwy Valley Railway Society "End of Indoor Season Special"
June 2012
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Charter Train Operators
Chester Model Railway Club & Ffestiniog Railway Dee & Mersey
Group.
Compass Tours Compass Tours, 46 Hallville Road, Liverpool L18 0HR Tel 0151 7221147 10am-6pm Mon-Fri
Mid-Cheshire Rail Users' Association
Northern Belle Bookings: 0845 077 2222
PMR Tours PO Box 6233, The West Shed, Ripley DE5 4AD Tel: 01773-743986
Pathfinder Tours, Stag House, Gydynap Lane, Inchbrook, Woodchester, Gloucestershire, GL5 5EZ. Bookings: 01453 835414
The Railway
Touring Company.
PO Box 1012, Kings Lynn
PE30 3YN Tel: 01553-661500 Fax: 01553 661800
Email: enquiries[at]railwaytouring.co.uk
Green
Express 66 Stonegate, Hunmanby, Filey YO14 0PP Tel 01723 891400
Vintage
Trains, 670 Warwick Road, Tyseley, Birmingham B11 2HL Tel:
0121
707 4696
Kingfisher Railtours,
Felmersham,
Mills
Road,
Osmington
Mills,
Weymouth,
Dorset.
DT3
6HE
Tel/Fax
0870
747
2983
Spitfire Railtours PO
box 824, Taunton TA1 9ET email: info[at]spitfirerailtours.co.uk
Tel: 0870 879 3675 (Mon-Fri 11:00 to 18:00).
Steam Dreams
'Bookings Office is open daily Monday to Friday from 0900hrs to 1730hrs
and on Saturday between 0930hrs and 1200hrs,' Telephone 01483 209888,
or email info[at]steamdreams.co.uk
UK Railtours PO Box 350, Welwyn
AL6 0WG Telephone: 01438 715050
West Coast Railway Company
Jesson Way, Crag Bank, Carnforth, Lancashire. LA5 9UR Tel: 01524
732100 Fax: 01524 735518
enquiries[at]westcoastrailways.co.uk