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About our programme of meetings and visits Meetings venue page (Includes Centre map & contact details)
Our Centres run a series of indoor meetings at regular venues over the Autumn, Winter, and Spring periods. This regular, winter series, of meetings is also generally open to guests and non-members. Where this is not the case it is stated in the Centre's listing. Our venues span the nation from Scotland to the south of England. Additionally there is a weekend event around the AGM and a selection of outdoor trips in the summer months. Other meetings have been occasionally held on an as required basis in Central London, Leicester, Bristol, Swindon and Weymouth.
Saturday and midweek meeting dates Meetings venue page (Includes Centre map & contact details)
Most winter indoor series meetings are held on weekday evenings. However, returning home late into the evening can be problematic for members residing some distance away from their nearest centre base therefore some centres do offer daytime meetings. These are currently - Kidderminster, Manchester and Godalming.
The Severn Valley Railway's Kidderminster Station Museum is home to the Midland Centre's meetings (see Venue map). Access by main line rail (Central trains) to the adjacent station is good as is road access. There is ample, relatively inexpensive, parking and catering is available from a choice of two SVR facilities.
The Manchester meetings are held in the City Centre and the opportunity to travel by train to the meetings from a wide area of the North exists. The venue is very central and close to both Albert and St Peter's Squares. (See Venue map) Both these Centres therefore provide the opportunity for members from a wide area the opportunity to travel to an event without being forced into the necessity of a very late return home time.
The Godalming meetings are also easily accesible by public transport.
Although we do not currently promote Kidderminster as a national SLS Centre as a consequence of having such a physically central geographical location, it does offer members from an extremely large catchment area, a Centre base that is accessible.
Twitter – speaker details
All Centre meetings are publicised using Twitter at the #hashtags given below.. Whilst appreciating that many of our booked speakers are not Twitter users if you are are then a mention in the meeting notice will be mutually beneficial. Please contact the webmaster using either @John_jnew or @Stephenson_loco.
Rail charters
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Although chartered main line rail excursions, the classic "SLS Specials" of the end of steam era, are no longer run, a range of one-off' trips and visits remains in our summer programme. As you can see from the photograph to the left , which was taken immediately after a party of SLS Members had travelled over the Severn Valley Railway during an AGM weekend, rail based trips are still organised. Photo © John New / SLS 2005. |
- Perpetual Calendar - Meetings venue page / centre details
All necessary contact information regarding the centres, contact details, venue maps etc., is available on our Meeting Centres page with hot links to each centre included with the event information below.
for Centre details see our Meeting Centres page .
February (back to month selection table) - Meetings venue page (Includes Centre map & contact details)
Section last updated - 10 February 2022. Due to the COVID & Omicron issue please check with the Centre before travelling to a meeting as there may need to be short notice cancellations. Cancellations will also be circulated on Twitter and Facebook. For Centre details and venue maps etc., see the links to our Meeting Centres page.
Library information: - Due to circumstances entirely outside our control the library is currently closed pending relocation. During this period alternative arrangements are in place with the RCTS.
4 Feb (7pm) - Teesside (1) - Newport Community Hub, Union Street, Middlesbrough TS1 5NQ "Model railway locomotives in lockdown" by Colin Warburton
9 Feb - Godalming - Speaker TBC
9 Feb (7pm) - South Lakeland, Kendal - note revised start time and a venue change - Topic and speaker = TBC. Please bring Face Coverings.
11 Feb:- Newcastle - Centre Annual General Meeting - Members only. Any Agenda items to the Centre Secretary by Friday 5th February please. A presentation after the AGM entitled ‘The Railway Scene in England in 1983’ in memory of Les Paul who held the post of Centre Chairman for 38 years.
12 Feb - Midlands (Kidderminster) - Centre AGM & Members presenations also expected post AGM.
14 Feb - Ayrshire - Using a camera after steam & Mr. McWilliam’s Scrap yard. William Hamilton.
15 Feb (2pm) - Teesside (2) - Langdon Square Community Centre Railways of the Isle of Man" by Ian McInnes
19 Feb - Manchester (1400hr) - Jody Ball and John Robson, CrossCountry Trains Regionalisation: its successes and challenges’ ‘190 Years of the Ffestiniog Railway’, Geoff Stocker
No other 2022 events for this month yet announced.
March (back to month selection table) - Meetings venue page (Includes Centre map & contact details)
Section last updated - 10 February 2022. Due to the COVID & Omicron issue please check with the Centre before travelling to a meeting as there may need to be short notice cancellations. Cancellations will also be circulated on Twitter and Facebook. For Centre details and venue maps etc., see the links to our Meeting Centres page
Library information: - Due to circumstances entirely outside our control the library is currently closed pending relocation. During this period alternative arrangements are in place with the RCTS.
4 Mar (7pm) – Teesside 1 - Middlesbrough - Centre AGM & Steve Dymott, ‘Rhatischebahn 2007’
9 Mar - Godalming - Speaker TBC
9 Mar (7pm) - South Lakeland, Kendal - note revised start time and a venue change - Topic and speaker = TBC. Please bring Face Coverings.
11 Mar:- Newcastle - A wet night in the yards – Shifting the goods in the early sixties. Jim Summers.
12 Mar ?? - Midlands (Kidderminster) - post COVID resumption of Centre meetings still TBC.
14 Mar - Ayrshire - A Canadian Railway Journey. Mr. Neil Hoskin.
15 Mar (7pm) - Teesside (2) - Langdon Square Community Centre - Pete Myers, ‘All things Northern’
19 Mar - Manchester (1400hr) - Alexander Fitch ‘A Railman’s Holiday’
30 Mar - Zoom - The Development and Operation of the Turbomotive - Ray Pettit (Postponed to 19th October) Zoom event - members only) If you are a member, and have not yet contacted our General Secretary to go into the mailing list you do need to do so in order to receive the Zoom broadcast invitation.
No other 2022 events for this month yet announced.
Section last updated - 10 February 2022. Due to the COVID & Omicron issue please check with the Centre before travelling to a meeting as there may need to be short notice cancellations. Cancellations will also be circulated on Twitter and Facebook. For Centre details and venue maps etc., see the links to our Meeting Centres page
Library information: - Due to circumstances entirely outside our control the library is currently closed pending relocation. During this period alternative arrangements are in place with the RCTS.
1 Apr (7pm) -– Teesside 1 - Middlesbrough - John Young, ‘The Richmond and Catterick Branches’
8 Apr: - Newcastle - Lakeshore Railroad: Jennings, Burgoyne and the 9½ inch Gauge. Mike Henderson & Matt Nunn, Lakeshore Railroad, South Shields.
9 Apr ?? - Midlands (Kidderminster) - post COVID resumption of Centre meetings still TBC.
11 Apr - Ayrshire - Ayrshire Centre AGM and members night.
13 Apr - Godalming - Two Pacific terminating narrow gauge railways, the Ramal Maule (Chile) and the White Pass &Yukon route. Peter Worsley
16 Apr - Manchester (1400hr) - Simon Holroyd, ‘Flying Scotsman’
16 - 18 Apr - A promotions and book sales stand at the York Model Railway Show. (Easter) Event cancelled due to cicumstances outside the organisers control.
19 Apr (7pm) - Teesside (2) - Langdon Square Community Centre - Michael Bunn, ‘London to Paris by Train’
28 Apr - Zoom - Locomotives of China Part 2: 1936 to 1999 - Robin Gibbons This is the second part of a presentation, the first having been held in January 2021, which covered standard gauge steam locomotives in China from the earliest days down to 1935. This talk will cover the last few years of imported steam before the war (including the Vulcan Foundry 4-8-4s), the locos imported in the immediate aftermath of the war, and then China’s development of its own steam locos from 1952 onwards including the later Pacific Classes. Zoom event - members only) If you are a member, and have not yet contacted our General Secretary to go into the mailing list you do need to do so in order to receive the Zoom broadcast invitation
No other 2022 events for this month yet announced.
Section last updated - 10 February 2022. Due to the COVID & Omicron issue please check with the Centre before travelling to a meeting as there may need to be short notice cancellations. Cancellations will also be circulated on Twitter and Facebook. For Centre details and venue maps etc., see the links to our Meeting Centres page
Library information: - Due to circumstances entirely outside our control the library is currently closed pending relocation. During this period alternative arrangements are in place with the RCTS.
6 May (7pm) -– Teesside 1 - Middlesbrough - Peter Worsley, ‘The Grimsby-Immingham Tramway’
9 May ?? - Midlands (Kidderminster) - post COVID resumption of Centre meetings still TBC.
13 May: - Newcastle - Railways of Peru Part 1 – The South. Phil Kirkland, Vice President Great Britain (North), The Permanent Way Institution.
21 May - The SLS AGM for 2022 has been fixed for Saturday 21st May, and will take place in Crewe. A programme of events is being organised by the Manchester Centre for the weekend, and further details will be released to members in due course vai the Journal or Newsletter. All subject to Covid, of course!
No other 2022 Centre events for this month yet announced.
Section last updated - 10 February 2022. For Centre details and venue maps etc., see the links to our Meeting Centres page.
No 2022 events for this month yet announced.
July (back to month selection table) - Meetings venue page (Includes Centre map & contact details)
Section last updated - 10 February 2022. For Centre details see our Meeting Centres page
No other 2022 events for this month yet announced.
August (back to month selection table) - Meetings venue page (Includes Centre map & contact details)
Section last updated - 10 February 2022. For Centre details and venue maps etc., see the links to our Meeting Centres page.
Library information: - Due to circumstances entirely outside our control the library is currently closed pending relocation. During this period alternative arrangements are in place with the RCTS.
No 2022 events for this month yet announced.
September (back to month selection table) - Meetings venue page (Includes Centre map & contact details)
Section last updated - 10 February 2022. For Centre details and venue maps etc., see the links to our Meeting Centres page.
Library information: - Due to circumstances entirely outside our control the library is currently closed pending relocation. During this period alternative arrangements are in place with the RCTS.
No 2022 events for this month yet announced.
October (back to month selection table) - Meetings venue page (Includes Centre map & contact details)
Section last updated - 10 February 2022. For Centre details and venue maps etc., see the links to our Meeting Centres page.
Library information: - Due to circumstances entirely outside our control the library is currently closed pending relocation. During this period alternative arrangements are in place with the RCTS. \
19 Oct - Zoom - The Development and Operation of the Turbomotive - Ray Pettit (Revised date - was 30th March) Zoom event - members only) If you are a member, and have not yet contacted our General Secretary to go into the mailing list you do need to do so in order to receive the Zoom broadcast invitation.
No 2022 events for this month yet announced.
November (back to month selection table) - Meetings venue page (Includes Centre map & contact details)
Section last updated - 10 February 2022. For Centre details and venue maps etc., see the links to our Meeting Centres page.
Library information: - Due to circumstances entirely outside our control the library is currently closed pending relocation. During this period alternative arrangements are in place with the RCTS.
All November 2021 meetings now held. No 2022 events for this month yet announced.
December (back to month selection table) - Meetings venue page (Includes Centre map & contact details)
Section last updated - 10 February 2022. For Centre details and venue maps etc., see the links to our Meeting Centres page.
Library information: - Due to circumstances entirely outside our control the library is currently closed pending relocation. During this period alternative arrangements are in place with the RCTS. All November 2021 meetings now held. No 2022 events for this month yet announced.
No 2022 events for this month yet announced.
January (back to month selection table)- Meetings venue page (Includes Centre map & contact details)
Section last updated - 10 February 2022. For Centre details and venue maps etc., see the links to our Meeting Centres page.
Library information: - Due to circumstances entirely outside our control the library is currently closed pending relocation. During this period alternative arrangements are in place with the RCTS. All November 2021 meetings now held. No 2022 events for this month yet announced.
No 2023 events yet announced.
Events & meetings more than 12 months ahead (back to month selection table) - Meetings venue page (Includes Centre map & contact details)
Section last updated - 10 February 2022. No 2023 events yet announced. For Centre details and venue maps etc., see the links to our Meeting Centres page.
- The meetings and venues listed are as notified to the Web-master but may be subject to change at short notice.
- When new content for this page is received it will be posted to the updates| About us & contacts page initially if it cannot be added here immediately.
- Non-members are welcome at meetings, unless "members only" is specified although there may be an admission charge or request for a donation. Other relevant events will be added when/where advised.
- External links from the meeting pages to other sites for venue mapping etc. are offered in good faith but may be subject to change outside the SLS's control.