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Welcome!
This site was last updated on
Monday, 20/05/2013
The Members' Area was last updated on:
Friday, 17/05/2013

 
Exhibitions
 

To find out where SRC layouts, as well as layouts owned by SRC Members, are booked to appear CLICK HERE.

If you don't care (and why on earth should you?), then DON'T CLICK HERE.

 
SRC layouts will be at forthcoming exhibitions as follows:
08/06/2013
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14/09/2013 - 15/09/2013
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28/09/2013 - 29/09/2013
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23/11/2013 - 24/11/2013
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01/02/2014 - 02/02/2014
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01/02/2014 - 02/02/2014
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01/02/2014 - 02/02/2014
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01/02/2014 - 02/02/2014
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10/05/2014 - 11/05/2014
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18/10/2014 - 19/10/2014
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For more information on exhibition appearances, click here.
 

 
SRC members' layouts will be at forthcoming exhibitions as follows:
17/08/2013
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28/09/2013 - 29/09/2013
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12/10/2013 - 13/10/2013
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19/10/2013 - 20/10/2013
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26/10/2013 - 27/10/2013
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02/11/2013
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23/11/2013 - 24/11/2013
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01/02/2014 - 02/02/2014
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15/02/2014 - 16/02/2014
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15/03/2014 - 16/03/2014
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10/05/2014 - 11/05/2014
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21/06/2014 - 22/06/2014
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For more information on exhibition appearances, click here.
 

 
Membership
 

If, despite what you find on this website, you find yourself strangely drawn towards membership, CLICK HERE to get to the Membership page.

 
SRC Meetings
 

The club meets on Tuesday and Friday evenings. You are warmly invited to come along and spend an evening with us to find out for yourself about the club's activities and layouts.
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For further information, please contact one of the following by telephone:

Colin Hill:

01785 211992
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Terry Robinson:
01785 816666
 
Contact Webmaster
 

Some people are so sufficiently disturbed that they wish to contact the Webmaster. If counselling fails and the urge continues, you can contact the Webmaster by email if you click here. On the other hand, further counselling is a better option.

 
Board
 

Believe it or not, there are some people who are actually responsible for all of this. In fact, most of them have not yet been locked up.
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The names of the members of the Circle's Board are available if you CLICK HERE.
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(NOTE: Some people think that if you don't click here, the Board will go away. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Like the poor, the Board is always with us.)

 
Other Organisations
 

The Stafford Railway Circle was established in 1957 and is a member of the following organisations:
bullet The Stafford District Arts Council
bullet Chiltern Model Railway Association
bullet The Stafford Borough Heritage Association

So there.

 


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Housing association demands a layout be dismantled

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Calls for a national High Speed network

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The Queen and HS2

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S&C

Settle down and enjoy the trip

Four members of the SRC decided that it would be a jolly good wheeze to have Day Out. Given that they belong to a railway circle, it should come as no surprise to learn that they decided not to travel by bus.

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The new New Street news

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Seimens falls behind

German train-builder Siemens has admitted that it will not meet the December 2014 target date for delivering new Eurostar trains, apparently because of safety issues connected in part with the Channel Tunnel. But Eurostar said it was still working on the assumption that it could bring at least some of the new 400m 'e320' sets into service in 2015.

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Steam Specials

 

 

Steam Specials

 

This shows steam stuff through to the end of April 2013. This is another attempt by the Website to be Useful. This goes down a bit like a lead balloon with the Powers That Be, but it's good to have a laugh!

 

This schedule was prepared on 30 March 2013. It won't be updated again until the end of April so, if you are using it to decide on looking at or travelling on the specials mentioned, check here for the latest position.

Get the latest updates from here.




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