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You can contact the Webmaster by email if you
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Interesting Stuff |
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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Terry Robinson:
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Wednesday 17th September 2008
Andy York - RMweb
‘The internet and how it benefits the hobby’.
RMweb started off three years ago as a forum based web site and has grown to be one of the largest and busiest web sites in the hobby in the UK. Its creator, Andy York a fellow Staffordian, will tonight present a talk and invite questions with regard to how a modern day tool can be used to make modelling easier and reach higher standards. This should prove to be an interesting evening looking at our hobby from a different perspective so please add it to your diary now.
This event is open to members of the SRC and any also to non members. If you fall into the latter category and wish to attend please contact our Social Secretary Colin Hill by email so that you can be added to the attendance list.
Staffs County Officers Club, Eastgate St, Stafford
Doors Open 7.30pm, Presentation 8.00pm
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Wednesday 15th October 2008
Michael Beale
Somerset and Dorset Railway Trust
'150 Years of the Somerset & Dorset Railway'
Tonight's presentation is by Michael Beale, the President of the Somerset and Dorset Railway Trust.
The talk titled "150 Years of the Somerset & Dorset Railway", illustrated with slides and recordings, focuses on the original aims of the promoters of the Somerset Central and Dorset Central Railways of a railway linking the Bristol and English Channels, resulting in the formation of the Somerset & Dorset Railway Company. It describes the subsequent growth, consolidation, decline and demise of the S&D, together with the subsequent resurgence of interest as a result of the development of preservation and heritage, concentrating throughout on the original route completed in 1863.
This event is open to members of the SRC and any also to non members. If you fall into the latter category and wish to attend please contact our Social Secretary Colin Hill by email so that you can be added to the attendance list.
Staffs County Officers Club, Eastgate St, Stafford
Doors Open 7.30pm, Presentation 8.00pm
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Other Organisations
The Stafford Railway Circle was established in 1957 and is a member of the following organisations: |
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Membership
If, despite what you find on this website, you find yourself strangely drawn towards membership, CLICK HERE to get to the Membership page. |
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The Committee
The names of the members of the Circle's Committee are available if you CLICK HERE.
(NOTE: Some people think that if you don't click here, the Committee will go away. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Like the poor, the Committee is always with us.) |
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Videos |
We've selected a few in which you may be interested....
You can see them here. If you have any suggestions for good RAILWAY videos, please send them to The Webmaster. |
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Entire website © copyright Stafford Railway Circle 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008. No material may be reproduced without the consent in writing of the Webmaster (on behalf of the SRC).
So there.
If you don't like it - tough! |
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This site was updated last on: Sunday 7 September, 2008
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Yes, dammit, they've done it again. They've tested the limits of the patience of the membership to its absolute limits and have brought out yet another edition of Linesider.
Web Towers has received a copy. This, amusingly, was sent by email with the little message "Linesider - the only media that reaches all the membership". This message cheerfully ignores the fact that most of "all the membership" are fighting to get out of the clubroom quickly before some well-intentioned Herbert makes them take a copy. Still, if it keeps the Editors happy...
Anyway, we've had a gander and you can read about what we found if you will kindly CLICK HERE. |
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Phil Timmis has sent in three shots of the steaming of the recently built A1 on the Great Central Railway. Phil took the shots on Tuesday 26 August, 2008.
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The Webmaster received a carefully crafted email which came flooding in from Mr Kington.
We are all safely back from the "Westinghouse MRC" show at Lackham just outside Chippenham. We all had a good time and were made to feel very welcome. Travelling was amazing for a Bank Holiday week-end with the journey home taking precisely 2 hours! No traffic on the M5/M6 - now that is unusual.
The layout performed well as usual although we may be promoting "Corporal Jones" to "Captain Chaos" at the next Group meeting...
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They had a Committee Meeting at the home of the Exhibition Manager on13 August 2008. At the end, instead of the usual cup of coffee, he announced that he was a poor pensioner and could no longer afford to pay for the electricity to run the electric kettle.
So, they all had to go to the pub instead....
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Hadley reached the age of 12 on Saturday 23 August. Belated Happy Birthday, Hadley!!
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Web Towers is indebted to a certain Mr J Wardle, of Gnosall (who used to be the Gnosall Gnutter, before he stopped being the Gnosall Gnutter), for deigning to supply some illustrations to our little website.
The story goes like this. He and his Management decided to go northward (or gnorthward) to look at railway events unfolding themselves at the Barrow Hilll Engine Shed near Chesterfield. Having suitable photographic apparatus handy, it was possible to take some rather fine photographs and these are available for your delectation and delight.
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The Moseley Railway Trust (MRT) has announced the completion of a key element of its continuing development of the site at Apedale. A large storage shed, known as Aurora North, has allowed the Trust to move its collection of narrow gauge locomotives from storage at a number of sites and bring them together – literally under one roof – for the first time in ten years.
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Our Eastern Correspondent, Mile Post 129, sent some pictures to us (publication delayed due to the Webmaster not having enough hours in the day recently). They were entitled "It's been a busy week", but after the title Mile Post 129 added "I don't know why I put titles - you never use them." Harsh, but true.
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Geoff Cook has let us have some photos, taken during the course of construction, of some of the pointwork he has been making over past months for the new Whiteacres layout currently being built by SRC members.
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from Colin Hill
I intend to ressurect the pre Christmas Meal which, I understand, did not happen last year.
In order that I can judge the interest, could I ask you to contact me if you wish to attend.
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Web Towers is always pleased to receive stuff for inclusion on the website. Delighted, in fact.
However, we are having some difficulty with the size of some of the attachments which are being sent to us.
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from David Ford
You’ve had the photos now here’s the story.
It all went a bit up the creek before we went, as the organisation of the exhibitors went a little bit off the tracks. The accommodation was agreed last December only, we presume, to be lost by the organiser who opted to have the Bash Street crew sharing two double beds.... |
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The new '0' gauge layout has a name. The name is Middle Cubley.
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This shows steam stuff through to the end of September 2008.
The Committee is somewhat distressed and unhappy to see visitors to this page as it indicates that the website is serving a Useful Purpose. The Committee doesn't understand "useful". It rather hopes that the website will not set a trend whereby the SRC membership expects the Committee itself to serve a Useful Purpose.
This schedule was prepared on 5 August 2008. |
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