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Page last updated 11th March 2010.  Further dates for 2010 will be added as they are set by our Centres.

About our programme of meetings and visits The SLS offers many services to members including the regular society magazine ( the Journal) an Internet Forum and also a range of meetings.  There are two types of meeting and events.  Our Centres run a series of indoor meetings at regular venues over the Autumn, Winter, and Spring periods.This regular, winter series, of meetings is also generally open to guests and non-members.  Where this is not the case it is stated in the Centre's listing. Although the chartered main line rail excursions, the classic"SLS Special's" of the end of steam era, are no longer run a range of one-off trips and visits remains in our summer programme.  Rail based trips are still organised as you can see from the photograph to the left which was taken immediately after a party of SLS Members had traveled over the Severn Valley Railway during the 2005 AGM weekend.  Photo © John New / SLS 2005

January (back to pick table)

 

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No 2011 dates yet received

February

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No 2011 dates yet received

March (back to pick table)

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3 Mar  - Bromley (Hayes) - A talk by Bob Howes of the Tramway Museum Society, called "Trams"

4 Mar - South Lakeland - 45 Years on - Then and Now – Part 2 – Journeys in 1963 & 2008 by Eric Bartlett

5 Mar- Middlesbrough - 'Pre-Grouping Survivors' - David Stewart-David.

5 Mar - Newcastle - A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF A RAILWAY ENTHUSIAST – 1977.  Malcolm Paul

8th Mar - Ayrshire - A year in the life of a camera by Mr. Ian Lothian.

10th Mar .- Guildford - Edward Talbot - 'BR Steam in the 1960s'.

13 Mar - Kidderminster - David Postle, (Kidderminster Rly Mus) on 'The Hereford, Hay & Brecon Railway'.

16 Mar - Yarm - Charles Hesterman Merz (1874-1940) The Bringer of Electricity. Andrew Everett

18th Mar - Barnet - Colour Derailed. An evening with Ron White

19 Mar - Newcastle - UK RAILWAY TRAVELLING POST OFFICES – A RETROSPECTIVE TRIBUTE. Alan Clothier

20 Mar - Manchester -The Darjeeling Himalaya Railway by Peter Jordan

April (back to pick table)

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2 Apr - Middlesbrough - No meeting due to Good Friday Bank Holiday

3 - 5 April (Easter Bank Holiday weekend) - Meet the Society - We will be at the York Model Railway Show - See us on Stand 37.

7 Apr - Bromley (Hayes) - meeting details TBC as at 12 October 2009

8 Apr - South Lakeland - Locomotives of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway by Clive Holden

9 Apr - Newcastle - FURTHER MEANDERINGS THROUGH 50 YEARS OF RAILWAY PHOTOGRAPHY – Part 3 – Prof Bill Hampson

10 Apr - Kidderminster - Neville Billington 'Bromsgrove, the railway, and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers'.

12th Apr - Ayrshire - Ayrshire Centre AGM and Members night.

14th Apr - Guildford - From Banker to Train Driver by Alan Nichols Originally set for 13 Jan and rescheduled due to the weather . (Entry updated 13 Jan 2010)

15th Apr - Barnet - Pictures from the Societies Photographic Collection presented by Keith Greenwood

20 Apr - Yarm - The Long Haul. Alan Clothier

23 Apr - Newcastle - STEAM IN NORTH EAST CHINA. Ian McInnes

24 & 25 April - Society's National AGM & railway visit weekend.  The 2010 AGM is being organised by the Midland's Centre.  The AGM date is Saturday 24th April 2010 with an additional social programme over the weekend surrounding the meeting.   Currently expected to be Chepstow for the meeting (24th) and a Dean Forest Railway visit (Sun 25th)

May (back to pick table)

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5 May - Bromley (Hayes) - meeting details TBC as at 12 October 2009

7 May - Middlesbrough - Mark Keefe - The Stainmore Railway

7 May - Newcastle - WORKIN’ ON THE RAILROAD. Phil Kirkland

9 May - Kidderminster - First showing of 'The Cream of the Stanford Jacobs Collection' (John New) revised from 9th January The Severn Valley Railway trip & lunch originally set for 9th May is being rearranged - date TBC

15 May - South Lakeland - Outside visit and Walk

June (back to pick table)

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June or July (tba) Midlands Centre visit to the Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway

August (back to pick table)

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September (back to pick table)

 

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September (tba) Midlands Centre visit to the 'Battlefield Line'.

OCTOBER (back to pick table)

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9 Oct  - Kidderminster - Norman Hewer, 'William Creuze, First Locomotive Engineer of the Birmingham & Gloucester Railway'

NOVEMBER (back to pick table)

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13 Nov - Kidderminster - Tony Francis, Department of Transport, 'Current Developments & Future Plans for the Great Western route'

20/21 Nov Meet the Society - We will be at the Warley Model Railway Show - NEC Hall 5

DECEMBER (back to pick table)

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11 Dec - Kidderminster - SLS Midlands Christmas Event.

25 Dec to 1st Jan - All centres closed for Christmas & New Year - our greetings of the season(back to pick table)