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Page last updated 4 August 2010
Introductory half year membership offer - £5.00 (Normal full year £25.00)
Update - The £5.00 offer includes the Journals for July to December.
Please click the link to the application form then print, complete and send with your cheque to the SLS Secretary, M. A. Green, 3 Cresswell Court, Hartlepool, TS26 0ES. If when completing the form you answer the voluntary questions too this will assist us in managing future recruitment and member expectations. (Section updated 15th June 2010)
Latest news re our heritage "plates" collection - Works plates display - Highley Engine House (SVR)
The works plates formerly on display in Glasgow until closure of that section of the hosting museum have been relocated and are now again on show located at the excellent "Engine House Museum" on the Severn Valley Railway at Highley. The photo' below shows the formal acceptance event for the loan to the SVR of these plates for this new exhibit within the museum's collection. Link to our heritage name & works plates page.
From left to right the individuals are - David Mee - Curator, Highley Engine House; Dr Michael Bailey MBE, SLS and David Williams, Chairman, Severn Valley Railway. Date 31st July 2010. Photographer - M A Green. (Section added 4 August 2010)
Launch of range of printable "SLS Special" headboards in a range of scales.
At the York Model Railway Show over Easter we are presenting our range of free "printie" replica SLS rail tour headboards to the railway model enthusiast arena. More details on our SLS Headboards page and the full text of our relevant press release is here.
Contact by email
To email either use the hot link from our home page or make the obvious changes to the following email address = stephenson_at_stephensonloco_dot_org_dot_uk (Entry added 1 October 2009)
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For all general queries regarding our facilities, railways, use of photographs from the site, membership etc please email using either the hot link from our home page or make the obvious changes to the following email address = stephenson_at_stephensonloco_dot_org_dot_uk (Entry updated 1 October 2009)
Current Journal cover picture details
Front Cover image: As the Journal cover picture changes frequently caption details are not listed here. For details see the Journal page.
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2010
Work in progress for future updates - Next update expected to be the routine bi-monthly update to add the Journal Contents for the September/October edition.
4 Aug - Our works plates collection is again on public display following relocation from Glasgow to the Engine House Museum. News item added above and to the Heritage, name plates etc., page. Minor changes to the meeting dates made within the Perpetual Calendar. Layout of nameplates page updated to include the Highley section and revisons also to the A to Z and Freeview Photos page listing to incoroprate the new items.
25 Jul - Journal contents added for the latest edition (July/August) and unfortunately also updates to the Obituaries / /In Memoriam page. New Cover image loaded and that from the last Journal added to the list of photographs available on freeview. Meeting dates added to the Perpetual Calendar. Note errata - regrettably the date of the visit to the Bishop's Castle Museum was wrongly given - It is on Wednesday 8 SEPTEMBER and not October as stated on p195 of the Journal. The What When Where section has also been updated with a new image (WW 151) and the answer to query WWW No 149. Further cross-referencing indexing added to the Site search and A to Z page.
24 Jun - Further meeting dates added to the Perpetual Calendar for North West England (Manchester centre). Area Contacts updated for the N W Centre. Phase 1 of the overhaul of the on-line Library Catalogue has been completed today. The previous master accession list for the Library (May 2009) has been replaced with the latest May 2010 version, including approximately 1500 new entries and a CSV version also added. There have been some other adjustment of the links within the Library Section to reflect final archiving of the old catalogue. Links to the Library description page and the Library Catalogue section.
15 Jun - Minor housekeeping / maintenance revisions today to the Application Form and to the page headers and indexing of the Stephenson Fact File pages.
11 Jun - Full check of the links from our Combined links page. Some links to external sites had changed and links to them repaired or deleted.
10 Jun - regrettably a further update to the Obituaries page. Additional meetings added to the Perpetual Calendar for the Ayrshire Centre together with details of the new Ayrshire meetings venue for 2010/11.
2 Jun - Link to D J Bookbinders added to the Journal page.
27 May - Significant update (2) - Further meetings added to the perpetual calendar for early 2011 at the Kidderminster Centre. Journal contents added for the latest edition (May/June) and unfortunately also updates to the Obituaries / /In Memoriam page. New Cover image loaded and that from the last Journal added to the list of photographs available on freeview.
26 May - Significant update (1) - Firstly the overdue reorganisation of the meetings section to remove duplications. Practical difficulties from maintaining duplicated date listings has led to a changed listings policy; all event and meeting dates will only be added once and shown in the Perpetual Calendar page. As routine maintenance the calendar also updated for forthcoming scheduled events/meetings at Kendal, Midlands Centre, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, Weymouth and Yarm. The Search and A to Z page also updated with revised and new links and all application forms also updated to reflect fact we are now into the 2nd half year.
12 Apr - Blythe Spirit tour item removed above as booking deadline has now passed.
30 & 31 Mar - Additional news item added above. At the York Model Railway Show over Easter we are presenting our range of free "printie" replica SLS rail tour headboards to the railway model enthusiast arena. More details on our SLS Headboards page and the full text of our relevant press release is here. Headboards page therefore also updated and enhanced, together with the loading of the headboard graphics files and creation of a new Press Release page. Relating to the above the 3rd Party publications page and our own Society publications page also updated.
25 Mar - News item for members added above relating to the NELPG Blythe Spirit rail tour and the Journal page also updated.
11 Mar - Significant update today with addition of both the delayed routine updates and several of the other pending updates. Pages updated include the Journal page, Perpetual Calendar. Publications and the Meeting dates by Centre page. The latter because the first dates for the forthcoming 2010/11 winter season dates have been supplied. Also, regrettably, an addition to the Obituaries page. Additional available material has also lead to the Centenary page, What when where? and the Photographs on Freeview lists being updated too.
Current reduced site maintenance service - An apology that conflicting demands arising through various circumstances have reduced the time available for web site maintenance and development and the February update was consequently postponed. Normal service expected to resume after our April AGM, in the meantime time please bear with me - John New SLS Webmaster
Feb update - postponed.
13 Jan - Not surprisingly given the adverse weather conditions updates to the meetings by centre page and the perpetual calendar.
Earlier updates
Earlier logs have been archived to form a historic audit trail of changes to this web site, They are available should anyone wish to view them:-
To view the 2009 archived updates
To view the 2008 archived updates.
To view archived updates from 2007
To view archived updates from 2006
To view archived updates from 2005
Pre-2005, Not available, as all older update logs had been deleted as obsolete prior to the decision to retain an audit trail of changes.
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