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(This header section updated/revised 18 July 2023)

News & Press Releases (Updated to 13 April 2024)

The World's Oldest Railway Society Working Towards a New Future

SLS Library - now reopened

A new site for the Library has been found in west Bristol and is open to members. Full details are on the Library page or as per the short feature in the March/April 2023 Jornual (Updated 12 May 2023)

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STICKY NOTICES -

1) Please DO NOT USE any contact details included in archive hard-copy Journals. All the current contacts are either on the About us & contacts page or, for Centres, on the Meetings Venues page. Our current General Secretary is Ted Buckley - email details are here.

2) Library - information/update - The latest updates are on the Library page and in the Society Newsletter.

3) As shown in the header a consultant has been employed to redesign the website for Wordpress. As part of this process several sections and pages introduced in the early days of this site will be removed - the internet has moved on and they are no longer needed. (Section revised 20 July 2021)

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1 Dec: The Perpetual Calendar and Contacts Page Newcastle Centre March 2025 meeting details amended

1 Dec: The Perpetual Calendar and Contacts Page Manchester Centre February 2025 meeting details amended

17 Nov : A new list (List 54b) added to the SLS Photograph Collection. Associated list of lists also updated. Subjects are - British Isles standard and narrow gauge railway subjects - Photograpehed by P.W.B. Semmens 1964-1974 inclusive

25 Oct: The Perpetual Calendar and Contacts Page RCTS Novemeber meeting programme added as a PDF file

20 Oct: The Perpetual Calendar and Contacts Page Teesside and Kendal Spring programmes added.

18 Oct: An error occurred a few days ago during a site maintenance action which rendered a folder of files inaccessible to viewers. The majority of the files are now restored to their original positions and work is under way to relocate the last few during the next couple of days. The known errors remaining to be reloaded are the scanned contents pages from the back-Journal index section.

2 Oct: The Perpetual Calendar and Contacts Page Kidderminster Autumn and Spring programme updated.

2 Oct: The Perpetual Calendar and Contacts Page RCTS October/Novemeber meeting programme added as a PDF file

23 Sep: The Perpetual Calendar and Contacts Page Newcastle Spring Programme dates added

20 Sep: The Meetings and Venues Page South Lakeland contact changed to James Young

20 Sep: The Perpetual Calendar and Contacts Page South Lakeland Autumn and Spring Programme dates added today

13 Sep: The Perpetual Calendar and Contacts Page Kidderminster and Ayrshire Autumn Programme updated today

1 Feb: The Perpetual Calendar and Contacts Page Kidderminster Spring Programme updated today

30 Jan: The Perpetual Calendar and Contacts Page South Lakes (Kendal) Spring Programme updated today

29 Jan:: A new list (List 66) added to the SLS Photograph Collection. Associated list of lists also updated. Subjects are - Mainly BR Southern Region plus Longmoor Light Railway - Photograpehed by R.H. Tunstall between May 1954 and |April 1958

8 Jan: A critical analysis on the Thoughts upon the history of the Stockton and Darlington Railway has been added to the Resources page

8 Dec: The Perpetual Calendar and Contacts Page Teesside Spring Programme updated today

6 Nov: The Perpetual Calendar and Contacts Page updated today.

24 Oct:: The Perpetual Calender and the Meetings venue page (Includes Centre map & contact details) Middlesborough Centre Spring 2024 programme added.

19 Oct:: The Perpetual Calender and the Meetings venue page (Includes Centre map & contact details) Newcastle Centre 2024 programme added.

3 Oct:: A new list (List 52B) added to the SLS Photograph Collection. Associated list of lists also updated. Subjects are - United Kingdom standard gauge steam locomotives, trains and stations mostly photographed in Scotland and a few Swiss subjects - Photograpehed by E.S. Lomax in the 1960's

1 Oct:: The Perpetual Calender and the Meetings venue page (Includes Centre map & contact details) Ayrshire Centre. Autumn meeting programme added to perpetual calendar.

1 Oct:: The Perpetual Calender and the Meetings venue page (Includes Centre map & contact details) Ayrshire Centre. See meetings page for new contact details.

9 Sep:: The Perpetual Calender and the Meetings venue page (Includes Centre map & contact details). In addition regarding our Ayrshire Centre. As John Black has retired the Centre is organising a local AGM/election of new organiserstherefore details remain work in progress. Details will be added, when known. We also apologise for the delayed updates to the calendar over the summer due to the SLS Web admin team being on holiday.

18 July: The Perpetual Calender and Meetings Venue updated today with the Manchester Centre Autumn 2023 and Spring 2024 meetin programme.

28 June: The Perpetual Calender and Meetings Venue updated today.

16 Jun: We apologise for the error reported to us on the home (Index) page which was diverting visitors to another site. The corrupted code has been deleted and the page overwritten. It is now fully working again as intended.

29 April: The Perpetual Calender updated today.

12 April: The Library Page updated today.

28 Feb: The Perpetual Calendar and Contacts Page updated today.

30 Jan: The Perpetual Calendar updated today with details for our Kendal (S Lakeland) Centre's programme for Spring 2023.

4 Jan: The Journal Contents for J937 & J938 loaded to the Journal page. Work on adding the contents of other older Journals continues as W.I.P on the Archived Journal Contents page.

3 Jan: The Perpetual Calendar updated today with an amendment to Teesside Centre's 3rd March Meeting

3 Dec: The Perpetual Calendar updated today with details for our Newcastle Centre's programme for Autumn 2023.

7 Nov: The Perpetual Calendar updated today with details for our Newcastle Centre's programme for Spring 2023.

24 Oct: Our new webmaster (Robert Turnham of our Newcaste Centre) has now taken over as John New has now retired from both this role and as the Society's Promotions Officer. Our Contacts Page has therefore been updated for both entries.

8 Oct: An across the site update to the header bar - News & Updates link renamed to - News, Tweets & updates. As tthis was an automated update please forgive any unexpected bugs, these will be eradicted if/when found.

6 & 7 Oct: The Perpetual Calendar updated due to the month end change in to October. Late notice change of speaker for two of the Middlesbrough meetings, we apologise for the late update of our calendar page. A new list (Camwell C25) added to the Photograph Collection lists and several other lists also updated with revised information.

5 Oct: As part of the ongoing site review the What Where When page and the associated answers page in the archived section were noted as out of date. They have been (a) revised and (b) moved into a pending state. Whether further updates to these pages are made will depend on the outcome of the ongoing site rebuilding process. Readers may also wish to note that the change of website manager is diue to occur in the next few days.

27 Sep: The Perpetual Calendar and the Meetings & Venues page updated today with dates, times and room changes for our Kendal (S Lakeland) Centre. In addition updating the Journal and past Journal contents section has resumed; however, due to the pending site rebuild completion may take some time.

17 Sep: The Perpetual Calendar updated today with several revision/updates for our Teesside Centre's programme (both venues).

11 Sep: The Perpetual Calendar updated today with Ayrshire Centre meetings. Programme through to the Christmas break now fully complete and also substantially complete for the early 2023 events.

5 Sep: The Perpetual Calendar updated today for the month end change. (Delayed slightly due to staff holidays)

28 Aug: The Perpetual Calendar updated today with details for our Godalming Centre's programme from October through into 2023.

23 Aug: Firstly apologies to our readers for this delayed update. The hand-over process to a new website manager is progressing; however, holidays and other hiccough have delayed handover. As a consequence our outgoing web manager has agreed to continue for a short while to keep the calendar up to date. The Perpetual Calendar updated today with details for our Manchester Centre's programme.

15 Jul: The Perpetual Calendar updated with details for the two venues on Teesside (Middlesbrough & Coulby Newham) together with the Zoom meeting details for December.. As all the Coulby Newham meetings are now schedule for Tuesday afternoons the venue page listing also updated.

6 Jul: Revised notes regarding eligibility for viewing national zoom meetings made on the Perpetual Calendar page (Adding notes regarding the access for LCGB members).

5 Jul: Regular monthly change update to the Perpetual Calendar

28 Jun: A new list (List 65) added to the SLS Photograph Collection. Associated list of lists also updated. Subjects are - British Railways locomotives, trains and stations photographed by R.H. Tunstall between July1953 to May 1954 inclusive mostly on the British Railways Southern Region including the Isle of Wight and the Longmoor Military Railway.

16 June: Regular monthly change update to the Perpetual Calendar and an update for the Members Only visit on 24th July. NB The website manager apologises for the slight delay in this update due to a conflict with personal issues. Also a corrupted file link discovered a,in a routine links test - now bug-fixed.

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Older entries removed as obsolete.

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