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:
Seagone
Wigan
16/06/2012 - 17/06/2012
Hogsmead
Burton-on-Trent ModelrailEx
04/11/2012
Whiteacres
Warley
24/11/2012 - 25/11/2012
Seagone
Stafford
02/02/2013 - 03/02/2013
For more information on exhibition appearances, click here.
SRC members' layouts will be at forthcoming exhibitions as follows:
Crimson Road
Folkestone
06/10/2012 - 07/10/2012
Foundry Lane
Burton-on-Trent ModelrailEx
04/11/2012
Midchester City
Trent Vale
28/07/2012 - 29/07/2012
Midchester City
Loughborough
29/09/2012 - 30/09/2012
Midchester City
Sutton Coldfield
27/04/2013 - 28/04/2013
Midchester City
High Wycombe
02/11/2013
Spires Road
Stafford
02/02/2013 - 03/02/2013
Spires Road
Belper
23/03/2013
Spires Road
Stockport
11/05/2013 - 12/05/2013
Spires Road
Perth
21/06/2014 - 22/06/2014
For more information on exhibition appearances, click here.
If, despite what you find on this website, you find yourself strangely drawn towards membership, CLICK HERE to get to the Membership page.
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.
For further information, please contact one of the following by telephone:
Colin Hill:
01785 211992
Terry Robinson:
01785 816666
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.
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.
The names of the members of the Circle's Board are available if you CLICK HERE.
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Hixon rail disaster
Not a million miles away from the SRC clubrooms is the village of Hixon, scene of one of the worst rail disasters in UK history.
It took place on 6 January 1968, in the days when "continental" level crossings were still being introduced into the country and occurred because a heavy load (a 120 ton electrical transformer) had not cleared such a crossing when an express train struck it.
More strikes seem set to go ahead on East Midlands Trains after talks to resolve a pensions dispute broke down.
The walkouts involve more than 400 ASLEF drivers. Services have been reduced or replaced by buses on occasional days recently when drivers staged 24-hour strikes in protest at company proposals which the union claims will 'weaken' their pension arrangements.
The Webmaster has received many kind enquiries about why there has been no recent appearance on this website of "Blythe Bridge Betty" (the Crewe-Derby service operated by East Midlands Trains, which serves Blythe Bridge station and which is currently not utterly reliable due to periodic strikes over pensions by EMT staff). The Webmaster is hoping to resume EMT travel later this month and hopes that fascinating opportunities will open for him to share with the readers of this site.
Meanwhile, users of another similar type of service in Nottinghamshire have had something of a nasty shock.
Your Webmaster's use of mobile phones falls very definitely into the "gerfingerpoken and hope" school of operation. Even switching the darn thing on is a challenge, let alone actually managing to make a phone call or, even more challenging, sending/receiving a text. So, the idea of getting train information on one of the damn things is very much science fiction.
A small but select group of SRC members went to Amerton on 5 May to watch the Mayor of Stafford cut a yellow ribbon to symbolise the start of Amerton Railway's ownership of the land over which the railway runs.
Pete Waterman, who we see every year at our exhibitions, has launched a big attack on the Government's approach to training and the effect of its policies on youth unemployment.
Trains are calling again at Cosford railway station for the first time in more than six months after major work on a new platform was finally completed.
Work on the station began last October to replace the old station and platform, which were made almost entirely of wood. Network Rail, which was carrying out the work, had been due to hand over the station seven weeks ago.
A new agreement between Network Rail and South West Trains has been put into effect.
A single senior joint management team led by SWT Managing Director Tim Shoveller now has responsibility for both trains and track on the 'Wessex' routes operating from London Waterloo.
A 1940s steam locomotive has finally arrived at a Dorset seaside resort on 27 April 2012 just a little late - 46 years after it was banned from travelling along the route because of its bulk.
First Steam 'n' Ale festival to take place at Foxfield...
Foxfield Railway has announced the launch of a brand new real ale festival at the railway in Blythe Bridge. The 1st STEAM ‘N’ ALE Festival is expected to take place over the Golden Jubilee weekend from 2nd – 5th of June.
This shows steam stuff through to the end of May 2012.
This schedule was prepared on 29 April 2012. It won't be updated again until the end of May so, if you are using it to decide on looking at or travelling on the specials mentioned, check here for the latest position.
Once again, the website has tried to be helpful. Don't bank on a repeat. Once Those In Charge find out that helpfulness has occurred, they will alter the page to give information about free train travel between Stafford and London. That, of course, does not exist, but it would give them a lot of pleasure to make you think that it did...
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