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We made it to our "100 not out weekend" - now begins the "On to 200... !" era

The first "On to 200...!" event - Thursday 10th Dec 09 to Tuesday 5th January

An SLS Centenary exhibition was held at the NRM York. (Pdf copy of press release about the event here.   Photo's will be added as soon as time permits. (Section last updated 13 January)

The centenary -

Special Centenary Membership offer - £10.00 (Normally £25.00 & £4.00) 

To celebrate our Centenary we are offering a 2010 membership PLUS a copy of the Centenary Booklet for just £10.00 (Normally £25.00 and £4.00 for the booklet)  New members only.  To help us monitor publicity and recruitment please click the appropriate link to our application forms below:-

Referred from Steam Railway | Referred from Backtrack | Referred from Railway Magazine | Other reason/source and then print, complete and send your cheque and application form to the SLS Secretary, M. A. Green, 3 Cresswell Court, Hartlepool, TS26 0ES. (Entry added 26th October 09)

4mm scale etched nameplates - Class 66 No 66 957

A run of etched replica nameplates in 4mm scale (1:76) is being released to the public by the well known railway modelling suppliers - Fox Transfers. . These will make a good commemorative souvenir of the Centenary in their own right and, of course, can also be used by members wishing to update the Bachmann 4mm model of the class 66 to be "our" engine.   Please contact Fox Transfers direct.

NB the proposed special commission of a run of these plates by the SLS is therefore not now required and the proposal has been withdrawn.

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)

Re-issue of the Centenary Stamp cover

The Centenary postal cover artwork has been redrafted by John Wigston, the railway artist, and will be available for issue franked with our centenary date of 11 December 2009. See the Related Promotions page for more details.  The Centenary stamps sheet and presentation pack has now sold out and is therefore no longer available.

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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:   Tanfield Railway Gala Weekend, September 2008. Haydock Foundry built (1874) 0-6-0WT Bellerophon with three coaches and Furness Railway 0-6-0 20 on the other end of the train (not in picture) at Andrew’s House. Arriving from Sunniside is 1948 built Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn 0-4-0ST Sir Cecil A. Cochrane, 13 September 2008. Photo - Malcolm Snowball    (NB If the picture does not match the text you are seeing a cached image.  To clear in most browsers  - hold down the shift key and then refresh the page)
Link to larger version of current cover picture shown above

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2010

13 Jan - Not surprisingly given the adverse weather conditions updates to the meetings by centre page and the perpetual calendar. Unfortunately due to a family illness my free time is currently restricted and some other curently due updates will be slightly delayed for which I apologise - John New Webmaster.

2009

20 Dec - The centenary page updated with an amplified section covering the Centenary weekend including photographs.  Additional photographs also added to our Members Only Yahoo Group. The presentation to the SLS of the LNWR Society's premier award for the restoration of Orion also added to the Orion page and above.  Minor revisions to the site A to Z page.  I have more new content to add to the site but it is unlikely time will be free for me to add thus now until after the Christmas/New Year break. I therefore take this opportunity to wish all site visitors a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year - John New SLS Webmaster. 

19 Dec - Added details of two ex-GCR plates to the Nameplates heritage page and additional indexing entries added to the A to Z search page listings. 

14 - 15 Dec - Updating underway to reflect the achievement of our Centenary milestone plus a routine update relating to the latest Journal etc.  Firstly the AGM page is now reverting to the original purpose of carrying details of just that event and all the Centenary year event material has now been collated into a new Centenary page as a lasting souvenir of the year.  Regrettably further entries have been made to the Obituaries page. As some additional stocks of our Little and Good (Great North of Scotland Railway) book have been obtained the publications for sale page also updated. The Journal page also updated for the Contents of the Nov/Dec edition plus the correction of a formatting bug on that page.  The new cover image uploaded and the previous image added to the photos on freeview page.

9 Dec - All pages which carry details of the Centenary weekend details revised to reflect the coming weekend's celebrations.  Update above to the nameplates offer as now that Fox Transfers are to produce the items for public sale the bespoke run is not required.

(NB Earlier 2009 amendements have now been deleted from this page but they are archived.)

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