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The Open Weekend at Wolverton 14/15 August has been postponed


Dawlish UK Study Tour
22-26 July 2010


The third Club Dawlish UK Study tour took place as advertised and was another great success. The Exeter panel box visit, courtesy of Network Rail, was most interesting and lasted nearly twice as long as scheduled.

The group were entertained by Colin Marsden on the Saturday night after dinner in the pub. A full report and pictures will appear in the Bulletin and on the Outdoors section of this website in due course.

Club Reunion

The Club Reunion will take place on Saturday December 4th 2010 at the Directory of Social Change, 24 Stephenson Way, near Euston station.

Please note the change of venue from previous years; this is due to rising costs. The Reunion is expected to last from 10.00 to 17.00 which is an earlier finishing time than in the past.

Details of the programme, guest speakers and the post-reunion entertainment will be announced in due course.

 

Overseas Reunion
Date reserved 22nd January 2011
We will be using a new venue


CAN WE HAVE YOUR MEMORIES OF LCGB RAILTOURS


You may have seen the recent references on this website or, better still, have read the article in STEAM DAYS for April covering the Club's East Devon Railtour of February 1965.

Following on from this, we have been invited to submit to STEAM DAYS articles and photos of other major LCGB tours. A shortlist is shown below and I would ask you to send your memories, recollections and records of any of these trips. Combined with the reports in the Bulletin we hope to put together further articles for the magazine, which, hopefully may result in interest in the Club and, with luck, membership enquiries.

Feb 1963 - Westcountryman - Mallard to Exeter and return plus Tiverton and Hemyock
June 1966 - Fellsman - (London) - Liverpool - Shap - Carlisle - S+C - Crewe - (London)
Sept 1966 - Great Central - last day - London to Nottingham and Sheffield etc
Sept 1966 - Conway Valley - N Wales main line, Conway and Denbigh branches.
Early 70s - North Germany 2 day tour using S.S. Avalon to Emden.

If you think any major tour is missing, please don't hesitate to send your contribution.
Please send your recollections, preferably by email with attachment, to Mike Turner at: carol@runnym.freeserve.co.uk
or by post to 36, Elmdale Close, Warsash, Southampton SO31 9RX.


If you have photographs you're happy to have reproduced please mention when replying but please don't send them at this stage.





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


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