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       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.
Please note that the indoor meeting programme on this web site is the correct one and that there is an error in the autumn CRS magazine version for October and December 2019.  I can understand that members who were not at the September meeting might wonder which one is correct. - Derek Buttivant.

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  2020

The Outdoor Events for 2020 are under consideration - these may include visits to various signalling centres and also a coach trip somewhere - a case of 'Watch this space'.