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Members’ Meetings
Next meeting
Saturday 8th November 2025
North Lakes Hotel & Spa Ullswater Rd, Penrith CA11 8QT
Because it’s 200 years since the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, we have been liaising with Mike Thompson from the Stainmore Railway Company, Neil Mackay, chairman of the North Eastern Railway Association and Ian Midcalf from the Armstrong Trust to produce a superb display of images of scenes from the past. Funding has been obtained from the National Heritage Lottery Fund “NHLF”) for this display “called the West (in)Side Story” to move around our area and for further events to be held.
One of these is of course our event in November, where the display will be available for viewing. Please take some time to view it and understand that the purpose is to educate the general public so we’ve tried to keep the technical detail to a minimum. The display includes around 100 carefully selected photographs and in the afternoon you’ll be able to view plenty of others. We have been able to allocate some of the NHLF funding to our event and have been able to keep the cost to the £30 we’ve previously charged. We are therefore going to extend our invitation to volunteers at the Stainmore Railway Company and members of the North Eastern Railway Association to join us. The room will accommodate around 100 people so we’re confident that we’ll fit everyone in.
Final reminder : Please note that all booking requests must arrive by Friday 26th September.
So here’s the notice:
The cost for the whole day is £30.00, including tea/coffee on arrival and mid-afternoon, and a buffet lunch. For those not taking lunch, the cost is £11.00.
Programme for the above is as follows: –
10:00 Assemble – Tea & Coffee available.
10:30 Philip Tuer, Chairman CRA, Welcome & Introduction
10.40 Chris Rowley “Crossing the Northern Pennines: How the Stockton & Darlington Railway Succeeded Where Others Failed and What it Meant for the North”
12.00 End of morning session
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Mike Thompson “The Fall and Rise of Kirkby Stephen East”
15:00 Tea & Coffee.
15:15 Neil Mackay (Chairman, North East Railway Association) – ‘West (In)Side Story – More Photos and Tales’
16.15 Close
Dave Stubbins : Meetings Administration