Events
Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life Railway Day
25/01/2025 10:00
[Issue 43 (Feb 2025) of Trackside magazine contains a feature on the 4 remaining 14XX locomotives, including Tiverton Museum's 1442]
More information: https://www.tivertonmuseum.org.uk/
DRA February members' social
05/02/2025 18:30
Social evening at the Taw River Inn, Sticklepath, Okehampton, EX20 2FG, usually on the first Wednesday of each month. All members are welcome.
Reopening the Dartmoor Line
21/02/2025
[NB this is a change to the previously publicised presentation]Presentation to Launceston Railway Circle by Matt Barnes, Head of Strategic Service Development, Great Western Railway. Matt will cover the background, the physical rebuilding works, driver training etc.
Meetings are held in St. Stephens Hall, next to the church, with vehicular access off Roydon Road (B3254) and a free car park. The hall is normally open by 1900 to allow members to meet and talk, and for meetings to start promptly at 1930. Tea/coffee are served about 2030. Meetings close by 2145.
Visitors are warmly welcomed to LRC meetings, and will pay the entrance fee of £3. The annual subscription for members is at present £15.
Plymouth Model Railway Show
02/03/2025
DRA March members' social
05/03/2025 18:30
Social evening at the Taw River Inn, Sticklepath, Okehampton, EX20 2FG, usually on the first Wednesday of each month. All members are welcome.
The Preservation Pioneers
21/03/2025
Presentation to Launceston Railway Circle by Jonathan Mann, Director of the Talyllyn Preservation Society, entitled “The Preservation Pioneers”.Meetings are held in St. Stephens Hall, next to the church, with vehicular access off Roydon Road (B3254) and a free car park. The hall is normally open by 1900 to allow members to meet and talk, and for meetings to start promptly at 1930. Tea/coffee are served about 2030. Meetings close by 2145.
Visitors are warmly welcomed to LRC meetings, and will pay the entrance fee of £3. The annual subscription for members is at present £15.
DRA April members' social
02/04/2025
Social evening at the Taw River Inn, Sticklepath, Okehampton, EX20 2FG, usually on the first Wednesday of each month. All members are welcome.
The Eastern Seaboard
11/04/2025
[Note this is the second Friday in April, as the first is Good Friday]Presentation to Launceston Railway Circle by Bernard Mills, who has kindly offered to give a second presentation on the time he was in the U.S.A., concentrating on this occasion on “The Eastern Seaboard”.
Meetings are held in St. Stephens Hall, next to the church, with vehicular access off Roydon Road (B3254) and a free car park. The hall is normally open by 1900 to allow members to meet and talk, and for meetings to start promptly at 1930. Tea/coffee are served about 2030. Meetings close by 2145.
Visitors are warmly welcomed to LRC meetings, and will pay the entrance fee of £3. The annual subscription for members is at present £15.
DRA May members' social
07/05/2025 18:30
Social evening at the Taw River Inn, Sticklepath, Okehampton, EX20 2FG, usually on the first Wednesday of each month. All members are welcome.
DRA June members' social
04/06/2025 18:30
Social evening at the Taw River Inn, Sticklepath, Okehampton, EX20 2FG, usually on the first Wednesday of each month. All members are welcome.
DRA July members' social
02/07/2025 18:30
Social evening at the Taw River Inn, Sticklepath, Okehampton, EX20 2FG, usually on the first Wednesday of each month. All members are welcome.