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8th August 2010 -
MINIATURE RAILWAY EXTRAVAGANZA – SPECIAL TRAINS
ON THE NORTH BAY RAILWAY, SCARBOROUGH and CLEETHORPES COAST LIGHT RAILWAY,
SUNDAY, 26TH SEPTEMBER 2010.
Click
for
Details and Application
Form.
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July 2010 - List of Miniature Railways:
Copies of an enhanced 2010 Annual Guide, including Postcode and website
information are available for NGRS members on request from NGRS Secretary, Iain McCall
via
either the postal or e:Mail addresses shown on the Contacts page.
PS. The existence of two editions of the Annual Guide is a recent
development, and is still the subject of discussion at Committee level - our
next meeting is in September, following which the situation may change.
Click for
Draft Minutes of
our 59th AGM held on 8th May 2010
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7/12/09 - More Group News - Next Year's Program
From that Hardy
Yorkshire Area Group
Narrow Gauge North Model Railway Show 2010
Sat 13thMarch–
10.30am to 5pm AND Sun 14th March – 10.30am to 4.30pm
at Benton Park School, Harrogate Road, Rawdon, Leeds LS19 6LX
Adult £5 – accompanied child £1
Working layouts in all the popular narrow gauge modelling scales, 4mm to 16mm
and G scale
A
full range of trade and society stands (including the NGRS/Moseley Trust stand)
Plus
of course Refreshments
All proceeds to
Sue Ryder Care Home – Wheatfields
Full details at:
our web-site:
www.narrowgaugenorth.org.uk
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30/11/09
- Next year's 2010 AGM will be on May 8th at Leighton Buzzard - the 2011
AGM is set for the Tallyllyn Railway on the same weekend in May.
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29/3/09 -
SKLR SOS CAMPAIGN
UPDATE 24th MARCH 2009
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009
16:58:07 +0000
From: sklr1905@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: SKLR SOS CAMPAIGN UPDATE 24th MARCH 2009
SKLR SOS CAMPAIGN UPDATE 24th MARCH 2009
SOME GOOD NEWS
The
following press release was issued jointly by M-real and the SKLR at 10.30am
on Tuesday 24 March 2009:-
M-real and SKLR reach
agreement about light railway operations at Sittingbourne
M-real closed down its
papermaking operations in Sittingbourne at the beginning of 2007. After
seeing to the removal of the papermaking machinery and dealing with the
employment, pension and environmental issues at the site, M-real plans to
sell all the land associated with the operations.
Sittingbourne & Kemsley
Light Railway (SKLR) was therefore given 12 months notice that its
arrangements with M-real would come to an end and SKLR would have to cease
operating on M-real’s land at the end of January 2009.
Since the announcement of
the mill closure at the end of 2006 and the notice from M-real at the start
of 2008, SKLR has been actively investigating possible ways of securing the
future of the light railway and has run a successful campaign highlighting
its significance for the town of Sittingbourne and seeking support for its
continued operation.
Both M-real and SKLR are
pleased to announce that they have been able to agree an interim solution
which will allow SKLR’s operation to continue as a key part of the
development of tourist and leisure activities at Sittingbourne.
The agreement will allow
SKLR to provide train services in the future within the Swale Country Park.
As part of the agreement,
M-real has donated tracks, sleepers and materials to SKLR in addition to its
previous donations of rolling stock.
With the support of Swale
Borough Council and specialist professional advisers, SKLR is working on a
new business plan for future operations and is grateful for the input and
support received from all interested parties. SKLR has decided to suspend
its passenger operations for 2009 in order to have time to focus on a number
of very important issues which are involved in securing the future of this
heritage attraction.
SKLR is also grateful to
M-real for a cash donation made by M-real to assist SKLR with its expenses
during this period of reduced income..
Both parties would like to
express their gratitude to the Officers and Members of Swale Borough Council
for their assistance in bringing this agreement about and to Mr Wyatt for
his support. Support from Cllr Bowles, Cllr Wright, Ms Barbara Thompson and
Mr Ian Lewis has been particularly valuable in bringing the parties together
to reach this agreement.
It is hoped that SKLR will
now be able to obtain grant funding to help to secure its long-term future,
providing a steam railway for the benefit of the people of Swale and beyond
for many years to come and allowing the continuing development of
Sittingbourne as a major town in the South East.
“We are delighted that we
have been able to reach agreement with SKLR. We think it gives the railway a
much-needed boost for its future survival,” said David Scudder, Company
Secretary at M-real.
“Our future is not yet
guaranteed, but this agreement gives us a valuable opportunity to survive
and thrive. We still have a great deal of work to do, both internally and
externally, and we may have to rethink how we do things, but at least we are
able to continue our work with a much greater degree of security”, Bob
Newcombe, Chairman of the Trustees of SKLR added.
SKLR would also like to
take this opportunity to thank all the legal and property advisers and other
specialists who have donated their time and expertise as part of this
process. Without their help there would have been no future for SKLR.
The
above represents the outcome of over twelve months of negotiations between
M-real and the Light Railway and, whilst it does not give us all that we
would want, it does represent a starting point for our ultimate goal of
keeping the whole Railway operational. The part of the Railway included in
the above press release runs on the land that M-real owns in the area of the
Country Park. It does not include Sittingbourne Viaduct station, Kemsley
Down station or the viaduct itself. However the Light Railway is now in a
position to open negotiations with SRP New Thames Ltd regarding the Kemsley
Down station site and with the purchaser of the Sittingbourne end of the
line once that land has been sold by M-real.
We
still have some way to go to safeguard the whole of the line and our SOS
Campaign will continue. Swale Borough Council has recently started
consultation on the draft version of its Masterplan for Sittingbourne Town
Centre and it is important that all views supporting the retention of the
viaduct and the Light Railway terminus at Sittingbourne are recorded. You
can view and comment on the draft masterplan at
www.swale.gov.uk and click on Masterplan.
The
Negotiating Team SKLR
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19/8/07
- You may be interested in the following, posted on the UK Miniature Railways
Yahoo Group site:
Miniature Railway film
posted on youtube.com
Posted by: "Nicholas Tozer"
nicholas.tozer@btinternet.com nicholas420203
Date: Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:45 am ((PDT))
I have been busy converting more of my video film into you tube films and can
currently offer film of the following amongst others:
Bickington Steam Railway 1993 (Trago Mills)
Birchley Miniature Railway 1989
Blenheim Park Railway 1990
Conway Valley Railway Museum 1989
Dobwalls Forest Railroad 1992
Exmoor Steam Railway 1993
Ferry Meadows Railroad 1989
Gorse Blossom Railway 1993
Great Torrington Miniature Railway 1993
Hastings Miniature Railway 1989
Hollycombe Miniature Railway 1989
Kirklees Light Railway 1993
Lakeside Miniature Railway 2007
Lappa Valley 1993
North Bay Railway 1994
Pixieland Miniature Railway 1993 (now Brocklands)
Retallack Miniature Railway 1993
RHDR 1989
Stapleford Park Railway (1970s cine)
Steamtown (Carnforth)1993
Thornes Park Railway 1994
Weston Park Railway 1989
Windmill Farm Railway 2007
I now have nearly 40 miniature railway related films listed on YouTube:
http://uk.youtube.com/user/nicktuk159
All films will also eventually be embedded in my own website:
http://www.railwaybook.com/youtube.htm
Nick
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23/4/07 - A Yahoo Group called
NGRailwaySociety has just been started, which will enable anyone with a
Narrow Gauge interest to communicate with each other. There are also facilities
for adding files and photographs etc. so please make use of the group.
If you are not already a member of Yahoo
Groups, don't worry, you can sign up from this page and join any group which
interests you. You can arrange for messages to be picked up from the site or
from your normal email account, either by individual emails or as a daily
digest.
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15/3/07 - This web-site was changed on 14/3/07 and
being mainly the same content as before, it is
now
up to us ensure that this public face of the NGRS is kept alive and up to date.
Would both ordinary and committee
members please look through the web-site, especially
in the areas of their responsibility or special
interest and send me
additions, broken links, inconsistencies, amendments and any/all ideas for
changes to the site however "silly". All will be considered.
Please send your emails to
mick.d.morgan(at)btinternet.com
They will be better received and more quickly acted on than paper
notes, though all will be given equal attention.
Attachments
in Word and most other formats can be handled. Pictures can be added to the
site, and can be balanced and re-sized to suit, so lets see a few changes over
the coming months.
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