SRC layouts will be at forthcoming exhibitions as follows:
New Haden
Manchester
02/10/2010 - 03/10/2010
Littleton
Aldershot
09/10/2010 - 10/10/2010
Littleton
Spalding
13/11/2010 - 14/11/2010
New Haden
Crewe
13/11/2010 - 14/11/2010
Littleton
Stafford
05/02/2011 - 06/02/2011
For more information on exhibition appearances, click here.
The Event of the Year at Apedale -
Grand Opening Gala
on 18 and 19 September 2010
The Moseley Railway Trust has made good progress with the construction of the 2’0” gauge Apedale Valley Light Railway at the Apedale site near Newcastle-Under-Lyme, North Staffordshire. It is expected that the operation of public passenger trains will commence during the summer of 2010.
A Grand Opening Gala will be held at Apedale on 18 and 19 September 2010. During this weekend, the official opening ceremony will take place – and the MRT is planning that a VIP will “cut the ribbon”.
It is hoped that at least one visiting steam locomotive will be in use, and there will be a wide range of traders, vintage vehicles and model railways. Our colleagues at the adjacent Apedale Heritage Centre will be running underground tours of their coal mine, and the café will doubtless be doing a roaring trade in its now legendary oatcakes.
I hereby give notice that the Annual General Meeting of Stafford Railway Circle Ltd will be held on Friday 26th November at the Staffs County Officers Club, 77 Eastgate Street, Stafford, commencing at 8.00pm.
Any members wishing to submit resolutions at the meeting must present these to the Company Secretary, in writing, no later than twenty six days before said meeting and shall be sent to Colin Hill, 37 Redhill, Stafford, ST16 1LQ.
Colin Hill Company Secretary
If you have an event you wish to publicise on this website, please get in touch with The Webmaster.
Now here's a bright idea!
It's been suggested that the SRC should start a Facebook Group or a Twitter feed which would focus on the forthcoming Exhibition. These facilities are used by the organisers of the National Model Railway Exhibition in November at the NEC, and by other model railway organisations or events.
Stafford Railway Circle's Chairman and Company Secretary went to the solicitor's on the morning of 1 September 2010 and signed a lease on new clubroom premises.
August sunshine floods the world outside Web Towers. The birds are singing in the trees (tra-la!). A soft breeze gently makes the trees sigh and rustle. Dappled sunshine makes the world look a prettier place as the cows in the nearby fields graze, uncaring that, maybe, today is the last day before they take a one-way ticket to the abbatoir. However, indoors, life is a sterner exercise. Why?
August "Linesider" has arrived.
Oh ... don't forget that you can see all of David Hughes' photographs in our Album pages.
Like taking coals to Newcastle - Treneglos goes to Truro! By John Wardle
Damian Ross, Chris Tooth, Phil Timmis and John Wardle have been away in Cornwall since Friday 20 August and returned home on the following Monday night.
The four of them took 'Treneglos' (their North Cornwall railway layout which was featured on the cover of the August issue of Hornby magazine) to the "Three Spires Railex". This is the Truro model railway exhibition organised by Falmouth MRC. It was a brilliant weekend trip.
The Webmaster has just stuck some stuff on the website about the 2011 Exhibition which, it is hoped, will flood the model railway world with more than just passing ambivalence. The exhibition, that is, not the webmaster or the website (both are utterly lost causes).
Your intrepid photographer ventured onto the rails in West Somerset very recently and took some rather nice photographs. Not only that, but he has graciously condescended to share them with us.
And the update? If you like aeroplanes, you'll LOVE this!!!
For more years than your Webmaster can remember (which is not many, due to the ravages of the nightly G&T), the Circle's largest OO layout, Littleton, has been under sentence of death. Its fiddle yard has been extensively remodelled to permit it to operate with Whiteacres, a new layout currently under development, which will replace Littleton in 2003 (it's a bit like Virgin Trains - running a tad late).
Laurel and Hardy - film comedians in the early days of talkies (for those of you who weren't around at the time) - used to use the words of our headline. It seems to be apt, appropriate and apposite for this website at the moment.
Steam Specials
This shows steam stuff through to the latter part of August 2010.
This schedule was prepared on 1 August 2010.
Once again, the website has broken the main edict of the management of the Stafford Railway Circle, which is to be as awkward and difficult and as unhelpful as possible. The Webmaster may be for the high jump...
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:
Andy Banks:
01785 613918
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 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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