CORNWALL RAILWAY SOCIETY

  Indoor Meetings Programme: 2019/20

 Meetings are held at the Memorial Hall at Redruth Methodist Church. Redruth Methodist Church is easy to find - it is alongside the railway adjacent to the tunnel.  Exiting the station from the up side turn right.  There is free car parking in the evenings at Flower Pot car park just 100 yards away. Check out the location on Google Earth and use street view. There are quite good bus and train services from the station.

We meet in the Memorial Hall which is on the first floor of this imposing building. The entrance for the hall is around the back. Walk up the narrow pavement to the left of the building.

You will have walked up the narrow pavement alongside the road, entrance to the hall is through the white door seen in this view. Beyond the door a sloping passageway leads up to the Memorial Hall.

​               CORNWALL RAILWAY SOCIETY
          Indoor Meetings Programme: 2019 - 2020
    Meetings are held at the Memorial Hall,                               The Methodist Church, Redruth on the 2nd Saturday of     each month, starting at 18.30.
     Visitors most welcome: £3 admission charge

2019
September      Was to have been  Redruth to Rangoon by Roy Hart
14                   We are extremely sorry to advise you that due personal circumstances Roy will be unable to provide our booked lecture                                 for 14th September - we hope that Roy will be able to come to Redruth to give his presentation at a future date. Our                                     best wishes to Roy and Mway.

2019
September       My 49 year railway career - and a bit more besides  by Dennis Flood.
14                    Dennis – our Chairman – spent much of his railway career in the Liverpool and Crewe                                      areas where he encountered a wide range of events and incidents which he will illustrate                          and describe in his entertaining talk.
 
October            21 years as Signalling Inspector/Incident Officer Cornwall and Devon by Steve
12                     Heginbotham.  With recent improvements to signalling after years of rationalisation, now is                          the right time to learn from Steve some of the events and changes he has seen.
 
November        GWR Camping Coach Holidays by Mike Fenton.
9                      Mike makes a welcome return with his detailed study of the very popular network of                                     camping coaches which provided inexpensive holidays beside the railway for thousands of                           families. We are also promised another musical interlude provided by Mike and his wife,                               Rachel, playing the autoharp.
 
December         Holding the Line - how Britain's railways were saved by Richard Faulkner
14                     Our speaker, Lord Faulkner of Worcester, as well as a distinguished political career, has                          had a lifelong interest in railways, holding several key posts including President of the                                  Railway Heritage Association.
2020
January            Brian Aston's New Year Railway Sound and Light Show.
11                    This will be another of Brian's whirlwind explorations of (mainly) railway happenings,                                     spiced with his usual selection of quirky, amusing or hair-raising video clips.

Outdoor Events  2019

The next outdoor event will be a visit to the Seaton Tramway on Saturday 13th July 2019.

Travel up on the 07.53 from Penzance calling at St Erth 08.01, Camborne 08.16, Redruth 08.23,  Truro 08.36, St Austell 08.54, Par 09.02, Bodmin Parkway 09.13, Exeter St Davids 11.03/11.25 Axminster 12.05.  Bus 885 from Axminster dep. 12.15 for Seaton for the tramway. Trams depart at 20 and 40 minutes past the hour. The tramway tickets cost £10. Return on the 885 bus from the Sea Front Gardens at Seaton at 16.20. The bus arrives at Axminster Station at 16.45. We catch the 17.03 train to Exeter St Davids arr 17.42. We depart Exeter St Davids at 17.53. We are due Bodmin Parkway at 19.50, Par 20.03, St Austell 20.10, Truro 20.27, Redruth 20.41, Camborne 20.47, St Erth 20.57 and arrive at Penzance at 21.10.
Purchase an Off-Peak Day return to Axminster.  Further details from Roger Winnen.
This event was very successful - see report in Features.