The Date! – Tuesday 4th December 2012 The Time! – 8pm The Place! – The recently refurbished, railway-themed Station Hotel, Altrincham General Knowledge, Train & Christmas Fun Quiz Come along and join us if you can!
Saturday 20 October 2012 is the date set by CAMRA East Cheshire for their next “train crawl”. Here’s an extract from the latest “Out Inn Cheshire” …. *************************************************************************** RAIL ALE TRAIL Our next scheduled train crawl is on Saturday 20 October. Anyone is welcome to join us, CAMRA member or not! I have hosted this [...]
Phill Bamford writes …. A gloomy, overcast evening turned glorious as we travelled along the Mid Cheshire line on 15 August 2012 en route to Alexanders in Chester, listening to a group of young musicians and their string quartet ‘Dmitri’. 18 clients plus regular passengers on the 18.46 from Altrincham were treated to an eclectic [...]
Details provided by Cedric Green, Secretary of our friends, the North Chershire Rail Users Group (NCRUG) …. We are pleased to confirm that the above event will take place on Saturday 21 July 2012. It will follow the same format as the previous two years except that there is the opportunity, for those who wish, [...]
Passenger Focus is the independent public body funded by the Government to protect the interests of passengers. More details are on their website including about their next Board Meeting on Wednesday 16 May which is in Manchester and is open to the public. If you go and hear anything of interest to our lines, please [...]
A new venture this year at Delamere Forest are Spellbound Forest days on Saturday 19 May and Sunday 20 May from 9am to 5pm. Our contacts at Delamere Forest write: – Organised by Wild Rumpus, The Spellbound Forest is an enchanting day out as we invite a family audience to follow the paths in Delamere Forest, [...]
Sally, our Community Rail Officer, writes …. On 27 March at a very sunny 9.15am Norman Baker, Transport Minister opened the new Brompton Dock at Piccadilly Station. The new 40 bike facility means that people can hire a shiny new Brompton for a day, a week or several months …. ideal for travelling on trains at peak times [...]
All of us find the WCML affects our lives in some way. Whether it’s: – on our trains between Stockport and Manchester battling for scarce paths to/from Piccadilly, or on one of our Stockport terminators having to wait outside Stockport for 9 minutes due to lack of platforms – on our local services from Acton Bridge, [...]
Rail in the North – Poster Invitation Looks interesting and it’s free to attend. It’s good to see so much focus going into developing transport systems in England elsewhere than just in London & the South East. See you there if you can make it!
On Wednesday 14 December from 2 to 3.30pm, come and learn how to make Christmas decorations then decorate the station Christmas tree. There will be carols, mulled wine & mince pies too. …
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