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. 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, 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
Port Sunlight meetings are held at The Lever Club, Greendale Road, Port Sunlight CH62 4XB, commencing at 19.30 (change from last year.). 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 06 September 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!
Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | June | July |
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?
Saturday 18 September North Wales Coast Rail Users’ Group. Public Meeting. Flint Town Hall, starting at 2pm. An opportunity to ask questions about your local train services and to make suggestions for improvements. The speaker will be Ben Davies, Stakeholder Liaison Manager. Arriva Trains Wales.
Tuesday 21 September North Wales Railway Circle Garry Hughes: Wartime Locomotives, courtesy of B & R Videos.
Wednesday 22 September Compass Tours excursion: Burnley Manchester Road, Rose Grove, Accrington, Blackburn, Cherry Tree, Bamber Bridge to Blaenau Ffestiniog. Class 47 Diesel throughout. [This Tour is now fully booked.]
Thursday 30 September Merseyside Railway History Group Alisdair McDonald: Ramblings on Rail
October 2010
Friday 1 October Clwyd Railway Circle Edgar Richards: Freight in North Wales and the North West. A combined collection of slides taken by Dave Airey and our well respected speaker.
Friday 1 October Compass Tours excursion from Llandudno Jct, Colwyn Bay, Rhyl, Flint and Chester to Pitlochry and Aviemore.
Saturday 2 October Compass Tours 'The Snowdonian Explorer'
Shrewsbury, Wellington, Telford Central, Codsall, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Cannock, Hednesford, Rugeley Town & Stafford to Betws-Y-Coed or Blaenau Ffestiniog with optional extra Steam Excursion. Class 66 Diesel to feature throughout.
2-3 October. Llangollen Railway Diesel weekend. Intensive service by the mainline diesels supported by one of the railcars.
Sunday 3 October: The annual Tram and Bus show at Pacific Road Birkenhead
Monday 4 October: RCTS Port Sunlight Harry Madden: MERSEYSIDE TRANSPORT. A miscellany of trains, trams, buses and shipping from both sides of the River Mersey.
Tuesday 5 October North Wales Railway Circle David Lindsay: Statfold Barn Railway visit.
Friday 8 October Altrincham Electric Railway Preservation Society A TOUR OF SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAYS IN THE EARLY 1970S (INDUSTRIAL AND MAIN LINE STEAM) a colour slide presentation by Alan Gilbert
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.
Saturday 16 October Llangollen Railway: Growler Group Members' Day. 6940 (37 240) will be making six return trips between Llangollen & Carrog. Tickets are available for non-members of the Group.
Monday 18 October RCTS Chester Tony Keeley: 50 YEARS BEHIND THE LENS. Tony’s presentaion covers his career working for Beyer Peacock in South America and Europe through to the present day.
Tuesday 19 October North Wales Railway Circle Bill Rogerson :Sardinia Railways.
23-31 October. Llangollen Railway Day out with Thomas. the half term event featuring No.1.
Thursday 28 October Merseyside Railway History Group Keith Crabtree: Tornado, a steam locomotive for the 21st Century
29 - 31 October Merseyside Model Railway Society exhibition at the Pacific Road Arts Centre, Birkenhead. Trams will be in operation on the adjacent tramway.
November 2010
Monday 1 November RCTS Port Sunlight Steve Ollive: PLANDAMPF 94 Featuring standard and narrow gauge in East Germany and organised trips around Dresden and the Thuringer Forest
Tuesday 2 November North Wales Railway Circle Paul Hardy: Wait and See (a secret location?)
Friday 5 November Clwyd Railway Circle Gordon Davies - American Wanderings. - A selection of slides showing diesel, electric and steam trains in the USA working passenger and extremely long freight trains from the East to the West coast, photographed in the last 16 years.
Friday 12 November Altrincham Electric Railway Preservation Society
16MM CINÉ FILMS FROM THE 1970s a miscellany by Richard Greenwood
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’.
Monday 15 November RCTS Chester Keith Crabtree: 60163 Tornado.Keith is from the A1 Steam Trust and will be giving a Power-point presentation on the history, building and operation of Tornado.
Tuesday 16 November North Wales Railway Circle Steve Morris: Brake Trials
Thursday 25 November Merseyside Railway History Group Geoff Morris: Steaming through the gauges in the 21st Century
December 2010
Friday 3 December Clwyd Railway Circle 'Xmas Celebration' - Video review of steam on the main line in 2010 with an interlude of festive goodies.
Monday 6 December RCTS Port Sunlight MEMBERS SHOW. 30 slides or digital images of your choice.
Tuesday 7 December North Wales Railway Circle : Pete Hanahoe & Brain Bollington: Railways of Latvia and other countries.
Thursday 9 December Merseyside Railway History Group Adrian Bodlander: Garratt Steam Safari (to Victoria Falls and beyond!) – Social evening
Friday 10 December Altrincham Electric Railway Preservation Society
STEAM ACROSS THE ROCKIES a DVD presentation of a steam-hauled special train from Calgary to Vancouver and back by Tony Harrison
Tuesday 14 December. 8E Association AGM followed by Jon Penn: Chester Black & White Part 2.
Tuesday 14 December North Wales Railway Circle Christmas 'Do': Members Photos etc.
January 2011
Friday 7 January Clwyd Railway Circle Tony Harrison: Trains Around the World. - Since retiring in 2000, Tony has travelled extensively around the world in pursuit of steam. This is his first visit and his presentations have received impressive reviews from other railway societies.
Friday 14 January Altrincham Electric Railway Preservation Society
50 YEARS OF THE CRICH TRAMWAY MUSEUM a colour slide presentation by Mike Crabtree
Monday 17 January RCTS Chester Tony Icke: WESTERN & WESSEX WANDERINGS. A slide show mainly from the 1960’s from
Crewe to the Isle of Wight via western routes, Swindon and the S&D.
Thursday 27 January Merseyside Railway History Group Geoff Pickard: Railways around Saltney
February 2011
Friday 4 February Clwyd Railway Circle David Rapson: Reflections on a Railway Career.A reflection in pictures and anecdotes of a 35 year career on the railway based largely in the North West.
Monday 7 February RCTS Port Sunlight: Peter Jackson: STEAM IN THE SNOW Slides of Peter’s visit to China in 2002, showing mainline and industrial steam.
Friday 11 February Altrincham Electric Railway Preservation Society
RED SEA RAILWAY - THE RAILWAYS OF ERITREA a PowerPoint presentation by Jennie Street (author "Red Sea Railway")
Monday 21 February RCTS Chester MEMBERS SHOW 30 slides or digital images of your choice.
Thursday 24 February Merseyside Railway History Group Allan Lewis: Norfolk & Western
March 2011
Friday 4 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 18th February by contacting David Jones (see below for details).
Monday 7 March RCTS Port Sunlight Edgar Richards: NORTH EASTERN Part 1. Edgar returns with views of the northern part of the former North Eastern Region.
Friday 11 March Altrincham Electric Railway Preservation Society STEAM AROUND CHESTER FROM THE 1960s ONWARDS a colour slide presentation by John Feild
Monday 21 March RCTS Chester Paul Chancellor FROM BLUE AND GREY TO BLACK AND GREEN. Paul from Colour-Rail presents slides illustrating the wide variety of liveries that have adorned British steam, diesel and electric locomotives over the past 60 years.
Thursday 31 March Merseyside Railway History Group AGM: Members Slides
April 2011
Friday 1 April Clwyd Railway Circle Geoff Morris: The Railways of South-West Wales over the last 30 years. A photographic journey looking at the railway scene in Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and West Glamorgan, an area often neglected by the railway enthusiast. We visit far-flung outposts of the passenger system (Fishguard Harbour, Milford Haven, Pembroke Dock, Central Wales line) and also meet some unusual diesels (cut-down classes 03 & 08) on the way.
Monday 4 April RCTS Port Sunlight BRANCH AGM (Members Only) Followed by Members' Photographs.
Friday 8 April Altrincham Electric Railway Preservation Society
TORNADO - A STEAM LOCOMOTIVE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
illustrated presentation by Graham Nicholas (A1 Steam Locomotive Trust)
Monday 18 April RCTS Chester Geoff Morris: ANOTHER AUSTRALIAN ADVENTURE. A digital presentation of Geoff’s 2010 visit to Australia featuring main line & preserved steam in Victoria, New South Wales & Queensland plus views of the modern scene and the odd kangaroo!
Thursday 28 April Merseyside Railway History Group Richard Kells: Quiz and informal evening
May 2011
June 2011
July 2011
August 2011
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
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