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 (second friday in January and April 2010) 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: davejan64[at]btinternet.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. 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. (Previously known as The Hotpoint Club) starting at 19:30. Contact Ted Jones joi632[at]aol.com
Locomotive
Club
of
Great
Britain
(North
West)
Merseyside Model Railway Society open days and evenings are held at Cavendish Enterprise Centre, Brassey Street,Birkenhead, Wirral, CH41 8BY. Events are subject to change due to an imminent re-location: check the Society website for latest information.
Merseyside Railway History
Group
North
Wales
Railway
Circle, Bangor,
meets on Tuesday
evenings,
generally the 1st and 3rd of the month, at 19.30 for a prompt 19:45
start. Meetings now take place in the Railway
Institute,
Euston Road (behind the station sidings). 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
Port Sunlight meetings are held at The Lever Club, Greendale Road, Port Sunlight CH62 4XB, commencing at 19.45. The club is adjacent to Port Sunlight station. If the main door is locked, please use the bell push to gain entrance. A donation of £ 2.00 is requested. Contact Richard Neale (rwnealeatl[at]supanet.com)
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.'
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 31 May 2010
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!
June | July
| Aug
| Sep | Oct | Nov
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Dec |
Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr
| May
June 2010
Saturday 5 June Excursion Compass Tours 'The Heart Of Wales Scenic Rambler' Holyhead, LlanfairPG, Bangor, Llandudno Junction, Colwyn Bay, Rhyl, Flint, Chester, Crewe, Nantwich, Whitchurch, Wem & Shrewsbury to Cardiff via the Heart of Wales scenic railway. Class 66 Diesel to feature throughout.
Saturday 12 June. Steam to Chester. Railway Touring Company. Cleethorpes to Chester with 44871.
26-27 June. Llangollen Railway Heritage Railcar Gala. An intensive service with the resident railcars and a special visitor plus the steam autotrain.
July 2010
Friday 16 July Excursion Compass Tours to EDINBURGH (via WCML) Picks up: Hereford, Leominster, Ludlow, Craven Arms, Shrewsbury, Gobowen, Wrexham General, Chester, Frodsham & Warrington Bank Quay Expected to be hauled by class 67s.
24-25 July. Llangollen Railway Ivor the Engine weekend with a return visit from the Welsh engine for a fun weekend. Includes Ivor the Engine in Concert on Saturday evening.
26-30 July: Cambrian Steam: 44871 Machynlleth - Porthmadog or Pwllheli and return.
Wednesday 28 July Conwy Valley Steam: Railway Touring Company. The Welsh Mountaineer Preston - Blaenau Ffestiniog.
31 July-1 August. Llangollen Railway 1960s weekend. Intensive service with a mix of steam, diesel and railcars with opportunity to appear in period dress.
August 2010
2-30 August, Mondays - Fridays only: Cambrian Steam: 44871 Machynlleth - Porthmadog or Pwllheli and return.
7-15 August. Llangollen Railway Day out with Thomas (again) the summer time visit by No.1 and friends.
Sunday 8 August Excursion Compass Tours to SKIPTON & KEIGHLEY (out via Bentham, return S&C + Shap) Picks up: Holyhead, Llanfairpwll, Bangor, Llandundo Junction, Colwyn Bay, Rhyl, Flint, Chester, Frodsham & Warrington Bank Quay. Expected to to be hauled by a class 67.
Sunday 8 August Steam on the Coast. Railway Touring Company. The North Wales Coast Express. Liverpool - Holyhead
Wednesday 11 August Conwy Valley Steam: Railway Touring Company. The Welsh Mountaineer Preston - Blaenau Ffestiniog.
Wednesday 18 August Conwy Valley Steam: Railway Touring Company. The Welsh Mountaineer Preston - Blaenau Ffestiniog.
Sunday 22 August Steam on the Coast. Railway Touring Company. The North Wales Coast Express. Liverpool - Holyhead
Wednesday 25 August Conwy Valley Steam: Railway Touring Company. The Welsh Mountaineer Preston - Blaenau Ffestiniog.
Monday 30 August Excursion Compass Tours to DURHAM + optional add-on tour via Hartlepool to Newcastle (routes covered include Cumbrian Coast, Tyne Valley, ECML, Aire Valley & Hellifield to Carnforth) Picks up: Crewe, Hooton (after runnning round), Ellesmere Port, Frodsham, Warrington Bank Quay, Wigan North Western, Preston, Lancaster & Carnforth This train is booked to feature D1015 Western Champion throughout.
September 2010
10-12 September. Llangollen Railway Autumn Steam gala celebrating 175th anniversary of GWR and 35 years of Llangollen Railway reopening with expected return of 7822 Foxcote Manor after ten year boiler overhaul.
Monday 13 September Wrexham Railway Society Rocket 150: the Final Great Cavalcade of British Steam? Thirty years on from Rainhill 1980 a review of the celebrations of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway including a Super 8 colour film of the famous Cavalcade.
Tuesday 14 September. 8E Association Glynn Parry: Under, Up & Over. Merseyrail, Overhead & Snowdon – A Connection?
October 2010
2-3 October. Llangollen Railway Diesel weekend. Intensive service by the mainline diesels supported by one of the railcars.
Monday 11 October. Wrexham Railway Society Preserved Steam on Video - the 2010 mainline steam action with PSOV.
Tuesday 12 October. 8E Association Charles Roberts (RCTS): 80s and 90s Irish Railways.
23-31 October. Llangollen Railway Day out with Thomas. the half term event featuring No.1.
29 - 31 October Merseyside Model Railway Society exhibition at the Pacific Road Arts Centre, Birkenhead.
November 2010
6-7 November. Llangollen Railway Poppy Train Service as part of the Remembrance festival - special guest engine possible.
Tuesday 9 November. 8E Association Chris Simon: ‘The Examination Quiz’.
December 2010
Tuesday 14 December. 8E Association AGM followed by Jon Penn: Chester Black & White Part 2.
January 2011
February 2011
March 2011
April 2011
May 2011
Charter Train Operators
Chester Model Railway Club & Ffestiniog Railway Dee & Mersey
Group.
Compass Tours The Barn, 119a New Street, Halsall, Ormskirk, United Kingdom, L39 8RR Telephone: 01704 840573
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
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