SRC layouts will be at forthcoming exhibitions as follows:
New Haden
Stafford
04/02/2012 - 05/02/2012
Whiteacres
Stafford
04/02/2012 - 05/02/2012
Seagone
Macclesfield
10/03/2012 - 11/03/2012
Seagone
Wigan
16/06/2012 - 17/06/2012
Whiteacres
Warley
24/11/2012 - 25/11/2012
For more information on exhibition appearances, click here.
SRC members' layouts will be at forthcoming exhibitions as follows:
Bash Street
Stafford
04/02/2012 - 05/02/2012
Bash Street
Model Rail Scotland (Glasgow)
24/02/2012 - 26/02/2012
Crimson Road
Model Rail Scotland (Glasgow)
24/02/2012 - 26/02/2012
Crimson Road
Shepton Mallet
05/05/2012 - 07/05/2012
Crimson Road
Folkestone
06/10/2012 - 07/10/2012
Cwmfelinfach
Shepton Mallet
18/02/2012
Ecclestone Manor
Sutton Coldfield
28/04/2012 - 29/04/2012
Foundry Lane
Sutton Coldfield
28/04/2012 - 29/04/2012
Midchester City
Stafford
04/02/2012 - 05/02/2012
Midchester City
Trent Vale
28/07/2012 - 29/07/2012
Midchester City
Loughborough
29/09/2012 - 30/09/2012
For more information on exhibition appearances, click here.
The Churnet Valley Railway will be holding a Steam Gala on
Saturday the 25th and
Sunday the 26th
of February 2012.
The locomotives running during the gala, subject to availability, will include:
- Visiting Black 5 No. 45379 courtesy of the Mid Hants Railway.
- Black 5 No. 44767 George Stephenson.
- USATC S160 No. 6046 making its debut in preservation and also its debut in the UK, this will be the first opportunity to see and ride behind this locomotive.
- Large Prairie No. 5199 making is final appearance before returning to the Llangollen Railway following a 3-year visit to the CVR.
- Plus an additional visiting locomotive that we should be able to announce shortly.
There will be an intensive passenger service in operation that will feature the 27 mile round trip from Froghall - Cauldon Lowe - Froghall. For anyone that has not ridden on the line to Cauldon Lowe this offers the chance to hear and see the locomotives working hard as the gradients on this 8 mile section of line range from
1 in 40 - 1 in 61.
Other features during the gala weekend will include: - Double headed Black 5's to Cauldon Lowe,
- Banking on trains to Cauldon Lowe,
- The freight train will do two round trips per day from Froghall Junction to Leekbrook,
- Locomotive Workshop and Carriage shed open for visits.
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Better than ever
Our 2012 exhibition, full details here, is to be held on 4th and 5th February at the County Showground, just east of Stafford. We reckon it's going to be better than ever - but we're biased! To find out if we're being truthful, why not come along?
We're looking forward to the pleasure of your company...
A4s come home
The National Railway Museum has confirmed that a formal agreement has been reached to temporarily repatriate two A4 class locomotives to play a part in the celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of Mallard’s world record breaking 126mph run down Stoke Bank on 3 July 1938.
Michael Portillo started the third series of Great Railway Journeys on BBC2 on Monday 2 January 2012 at 1830. The programme was also available on the BBC HD channel.
One of our local preserved lines has a lot happening in the fairly near future (like a Winter Gala, a remodelled and better equipped Cheddleton, and an extended route)...
Due to a change in the software being used for its production, the SRC's in-house magazine "Linesider" did not get produced in November.
However, it made a triumphant return in December and includes much of the sort of stuff that SRC members have come to expect. Since he is a true gentleman, the Editor of the worthy organ does not include a lot of the material that SCR members would like to expect.
Oh ... don't forget that you can see David Hughes' photographs in our Album pages in full colour.
As you will read elsewhere, the latest edition of "Linesider", the SRC's in-house magazine for members only, has just been published. It includes an article by David Hughes which recounts travel on steam hauled trains and includes photographs taken during those journeys.
A number of people have brought to the attention of the Webmaster a video currently available on YouTube which shows rough justice being meted out to a fare dodger. You can see that video if Read More...
The biggest danger in operating steam specials through Stafford is that of those on the trains encountering sundry members of the SRC. Various SRC members lurk in the vicinity of the railway line over which the special will pass pointing cameras at the passing train. It is rumoured that some of them stick out their tongues at the drivers, but rumours that some of them moon the train have been strongly denied.
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