Sunday, September 2nd 2012

From 11.00am until 5.00pm

A relaxed and friendly day with no public passenger carrying.

Bring a locomotive to run – steam loco’s require a current boiler certificate please.

31/2″, 5″ and 71/4″ gauge tracks in operation.

And an added bonus! Bernard will be demonstrating Silver Soldering in the Ashton Workshop. Come along and watch an award winning engine builder at work

Dear Member

Congratulations! If you are reading this you must have managed to ‘log-on’ to the new website – well done!

Please let us know what you think of it – good or bad.

Best regards …. Kevin

Kevin Slater CEng – Chairman

On the 15^th February Eric Miles came to our evening meeting at Begbrook and gave us a fascinating account of the recovery of the Sentinel steam railway locomotive originally purchased by Fry’s of Sommerdale (latterly Cadburys, and now sadly closed by Kraft).

Arising from this visit David Cole has invited us to view progress on the restoration of this locomotive which is presently taking place at Avon Valley Railway. This has been arranged for 7.00pm on Wednesday 30^th May and I hope it will be well supported by members of our society. This is an almost unique railway locomotive from this company who are more usually associated with steam road vehicles. A donation to our hosts from members attending will be appreciated.