Industrial Railway Society Events and Visits
The 77th AGM will be held at the Fawley Hill Private Railway on Saturday 18th April. Details were published in the March Bulletin and all members and spouses/partners are welcome to attend this opportunity to witness the newly-overhauled McAlpine Hudswell Clarke tackling the 1 in 13 bank. Click on the image for tickets.
Sales Stand
The Sales Stand is scheduled to attend the following events:
Summer Spectacle of Steam, Statfold Barn – 6th and 7th June (in the IRS Archive building, near the Arena)
Amberley Museum Rail Gala, Amberley – 18th and 19th July
Garden Railway Show, Lymington Community Centre, Lymington – 8th and 9th August
Other Links & Events
From time to time members of the Industrial Railway Society and the IRS emailing list send in details of various events and open days around the country. As a service to members and other visitors to our website we can list these below, or in our bi-monthly newsletter, together with the sender’s name and email address (when known).
However please note that the IRS cannot take any responsibility for the accuracy of these announcements or even be sure whether they will actually take place. If you have any queries, please address them to the relevant society, NOT the IRS.
If you would like your event listed please email the Bulletin Editor.
Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway, Skegness
Narrow Gauge at Work Photo Charter – Friday 19th June
Narrow Gauge at Work – Saturday 20th June –
Industrial narrow gauge enthusiasts are invited to sign up for the Photo Charter on the Friday. Those who sign up will also be entitled to free rides and lineside access on Saturday should they wish to stay overnight in the area. Lineside access on Saturday should be also be possible.
On Friday there will be 3 train consists and 5 locos (steam and diesel) available to haul them.
Consist One – skip wagons behind Peckett JURASSIC (ex-Southams Cement Works) or Simplex ‘Fred’ (ex-Skegness Brick Works) – with Trixie the horse to provide some horse haulage (Skip wagons and Trixie provided by the Silverleaf & Poplar Railway)
Consist Two – ex-Nocton Potato Railway wagons (ex-WW1 D and P wagons) with dummy potato load behind MotorRail Simplex ‘Nocton’ with its new replica Nocton wooden cab
Consist Three – PW train with rail wagon, sleeper wagon and ballast wagon hauled by ex-Bolton Fell Peat Railway Simplex T3 or SARK
If you wish to sign up for this charter, please make a bank transfer of £20 to the following Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway account. Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway Historic Vehicles Trust Account number: 11579450 Sort Code: 16 20 28. When doing so, please let Geoff glhankin36@hotmail.co.uk and Stuart Stuart_92@yahoo.co.uk know you have done this so Geoff can confirm payment and Stuart can keep in touch with you about arrangements for the day, including access to the Skegness Water Leisure Park where the Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway is located and free parking or public transport from Skegness Railway Station.
On Saturday passenger trains will operate from around 11 am to just before 4 pm using steam and diesel. Freight trains will be run between passenger trains to Seathorne Bank. This will be the first chance to see PAUL in her newly restored 1960 condition and hopefully the first chance to ride behind Simplex 8905. JURASSIC is expected to be in use if a steam crew is available. All trains will be top and tailed or double headed and we hope to have all 10 locos run in cavalcade at the end of the day.
Bagnall Bank Holiday Weekend
The Apedale Valley Light Railway, the West Lancashire Light Railway and Amerton Railway are delighted to announce their first jointly-organised event. All three railways have steam locomotives built by the company W.G.Bagnall of Stafford – and it will possible to travel behind Bagnall locos at each of the railways over the Spring Bank Holiday – May 23, 24 and 25.
A joint ticket will allow all-day travel on each of the railways during their operating hours. Priced at just £10 for adults and £3 for children, the tickets can be bought at any of the three railways and then used on the other two railways at any point over the bank holiday weekend. Tickets can also be bought in advance online.
It will, of course, always be possible to visit just one or two of the railways and buy tickets at the normal prices.
During the weekend Apedale will operate their 1924-built Bagnall WOTO. SYBIL, built in 1906, will be operating at the West Lancashire Light Railway’s site at Hesketh Bank. Finally, the oldest of them all – ISABEL, dating back to 1897 – will be running at Amerton. All three locos came from the same factory, and are to the same basic design, but there are significant differences between them, showing how the design evolved and modernised over the years.
The West Lancashire Light Railway is a 2’0” gauge railway operating at Hesketh Bank, located between Preston and Southport. Amerton Railway is located near to Stafford, and is owned and operated by Staffordshire Narrow Gauge Railway Limited. The Apedale Valley Light Railway, located near Newcastle-under-Lyme, is owned and operated by the Moseley Railway Trust.