Events

DRA December 2024 members' social

04/12/2024 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.

 

Santa Specials on the Tarka Valley Railway

07/12/2024

Saturday 7th and Saturday 14th December 2024.

Details TBA at https://www.tarkavalleyrailway.org/.

 

Making the most of local railways

11/12/2024 19:30

Making the most of local railways – Community Rail and the work of the Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership. A talk by Richard Burningham, MBE

Richard has managed Britain’s first rail partnership, the Devon & Cornwall Rail Partnership, based at the University of Plymouth, since 1998. It is a non-profit partnership between local authorities, the railway and the University of Plymouth and its objectives include promoting the branch lines, engaging the community, supporting economic growth and helping deliver improvements. He and the partnership have always been great enthusiasts for the Community Rail Network and particularly its role as a vehicle to encourage and help community rail partnership officers across the country to share ideas and experiences.

Venue: The Plymouth Athenaeum, Derry's Cross, Plymouth, Devon PL1 2SW

Presented by the Plymouth Branch of the Devonshire Association. Free of charge.

Contact: Colin Kilvington 01752 564972 cckilvington@btinternet.com

 

The Mills’s Railway Year 2024

20/12/2024

Launceston Railway Circle welcomes Bernard Mills to give a presentation to its Christmas meeting on his and Audrey’s rail travels around Britain during 2024.

Meetings are held in St. Stephens Hall, next to the church, with vehicular access off Roydon Road (B3254) and a free car park. For this meeting doors will open at 1830 for a 1900 start.

Visitors are warmly welcomed to LRC meetings, and will pay the entrance fee of £3. The annual subscription for members is at present £15.

 

Northern Route Working Group

21/02/2025

Presentation to Launceston Railway Circle by Andrew Roden: an update on the Northern Route Working Group as well as Modern Railways Magazine.

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

 

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.

 

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.