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2013 Club AGM


This event was hosted by the Dorking Branch on Saturday 20th April 2013
A report will appear here soon. AGM 2013
Graham Stacey (centre)
is thanked after the Club AGM by the Club President Jack Turner (left)
and the Club Chairman Bob Breakwell (right)
for his outstanding service to The Club as custodian of the Ken Nunn Collection.

AGM 2013
Members attentively listen at the AGM. (C'mon chaps, it can't be as bad as that!)

MADAGASCAR 2012


Were you on the LCGB 2012 Madagascar Study Tour
or booked on the2013 trip?

If so, you may be interested in a DVD of the 2012 Tour made by a French film crew.
Available from Camden Miniature Steam Services of Frome, Somerset - 01373 830151.
www.camdenmin.co.uk Price is £30.95 and duration is 90 minutes.




Ken Nunn Collection


Over a year ago, I gave notice that I wished to give up the Ken Nunn operation, and since then two notices have appeared in the Bulletin, appealing for a volunteer to take over this work.

Unfortunately no suitable offer has been received, even though several adequately qualified members were approached by the Management Committee. The entire collection (negatives and prints) has therefore now been taken over by the National Railway Museum (NRM) at York.

Very detailed listing information, indexed in every possible way (ie by company, class, negative number, etc) has also been supplied to the NRM in computerised form and assimilated into their system. However, with the agreement of the NRM, the Club retains a digital image of some 2700 of the 12000 subjects, thus enabling publication of two photos in every Bulletin to continue indefinitely.

Additionally, three talks based on the collection, London Steam before 1930, British Main Line Steam 1900-1960, and Further Afield with the Ken Nunn Collection – some of which were originally only available as slides – are now available as scanned images, and have been shown both to various branches and to other societies.

If any problems remain, I am still able to answer questions about the collection at my current address; 11 Braywood Avenue, Egham, Surrey TW20 9LY (Graham Stacey).


LCGB IN THE RAILWAY PRESS 2012

STEAM DAYS


March 2013 issue - article about the working life of a Toton Engineman , William Webb, including description of his his working of the LCGB 'Notts and Lincs Railtour' of 24 April 1965 with a couple of photos and a copy of the full Special Trafffic Notice for the Tour.

JANUARY 2013 ISSUE - this includes two articles partly illustrated with pictures of LCGB Railtours

Article entitled 'Steam Days at Poole' includes picture of Q class 0-6-0 No. 30548 at Hamworthy Goods on the 'Hampshire Venturer Railtour' of 18 April 1964 and BR Standard 2-6-0s Nos. 76026 and 77014 at the same location on the 'Dorset and Hants Railtour' of 16 October 1966.

Article about the BR Standard class 4 2-6-4 tanks includes a photo of No.80151 with 2-6-2T No.41320 on the rear at Lymington Junction on the 'Hampshire Branch Lines Railtour' of 9 April 1967. This was the Club's penultimate steam Railtour on the Southern Region.

APRIL 2012 ISSUE – Excellent article by Don Benn describing the Club’s famous ‘Kentish Venturer’ Railtour of 25 February 1962 – 50 years ago and the last society railtour around the mainlines of Kent with steam. Motive power was King Arthur, Schools, C and H.

AUGUST 2012 ISSUE – 10 page article covering three Club Railtours in 1966/67 using the then new electrics from Euston to reach steam in the North West - with photographs from various Club members.


The tours were
‘The Fellsman’ of 4 June 1966,
‘The Conway Valley’ of 24 September 1966

Photo(Robin Patrick) st Blaenau Festiniog

and ‘The Thames-Tyne Limited’ of 3 June 1967.

The same issue has an article entitled ‘Steam Days at Horsham’ which includes photographs of the LCGB/RCTS ‘Midhurst Belle’ Railtour of 12 October 1964 and the LCGB ‘Wealdsman’ Railtour of 13 June 1965.

New Books available on Sales Page

The Great Eastern Railway Society


We have exchanged links with the Society who offer a treasure trove of Data CD's, DVD's, printed matter and files you can download.
Lots of interest and worth a visit. Just Click here


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Information from the Metropolitan Police Website
Freedom to photograph/ film


Members of the public and the media do not need a permit to film or photograph in public places and police have no power to stop them filming or photographing incidents or police personnel.

Officers have the power to stop and search a person who they reasonably suspect to be a terrorist. The purpose of the stop and search is to discover whether that person has in their possession anything which may constitute evidence that they are a terrorist.

Officers have the power to view digital images contained in mobile telephones or cameras carried by a person searched under S43 of the Terrorism Act 2000 to discover whether the images constitute evidence that the person is involved in terrorism. Officers also have the power to seize and retain any article found during the search which the officer reasonably suspects may constitute evidence that the person is a terrorist. This includes any mobile telephone or camera containing such evidence.

Officers do not have the power to delete digital images or destroy film at any point during a search.
More details at http://www.met.police.uk/about/photography.htm



"Network Rail welcome Enthusiasts"
Click for Network Rail webpage with advice for station visits


"Train Spotters" harassed in Yorkshire
Click for BBC filmed report



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