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Slough & Windsor Railway Society
Model Railway Exhibition 2023
Sat 21st and Sun 22nd October – 10:00-16:00
UPDATE!!
Now taking place at Slough Museum and The Manor (SWRS meeting place) with a free vintage bus providing a link between the two!
Further details HERE.
About the SWRS
The Slough & Windsor Railway Society is essentially a social group for anyone interested in rail transport of any kind, especially railways in the area around Slough and Windsor (UK). New members are always welcome (and you don't have to live in Slough or Windsor!).
The Society meets for illustrated talks on Friday nights in a former Great Western Railway building adjacent to Slough railway station, known to us as The Manor.
Non-members are most welcome.
"Friday Nights at The Manor"
3 May 2024
Great Western Railway in Preservation
(plus: "Railways in Holland and Belgium")
Richard Morris
7:45pm, at 'The Manor', Slough Station (directions)
Richard Morris, Secretary of the The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society (RCTS), has been attempting to photograph every class of Great Western railway locomotive in preservation. That's the ultimate mission, but it's a 'work in progress', a bit of a way off being completed as a number are still just 'boxes of bits' at the moment!
We're taking up the challenge on the Manor model railway too, aiming to represent around twenty different classes of GWR loco, including quite a row of Pannier tanks! Do come and see if we achieve that.
For the second half of the evening, Richard will be giving another of his presentations: "Railways in Holland and Belgium". It will feature images from 2007-2015, so a few older trains and some newer ones.
Photo – New and Old – Newly built GWR 2900 Class Lady of Legend stands alongside 4079 Pendennis Castle, celebrating her 100th birthday, on the mainline demonstration line at Didcot Railway Centre. – 3rd March 2024 – User: BWard 1997 from Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-4.0)
Please see the Programme page for more about Friday meetings.
If you would like more information or to join the Society, please see the Membership page.
"Slough Estates No. 3"
In addition to holding weekly meetings and other events, the Society is the custodian for Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST "Slough Estates Ltd No.3", a 1924-built steam locomotive which operated for 50 years on the Slough Trading Estate Railway.
After a prolonged restoration (read more here), No.3 was finally returned to steam in 2000, and spent a number of years hauling passenger services at the Swindon & Cricklade Railway in Wiltshire.
In 2011, No.3 was relocated to the Middleton Railway in Leeds on long-term loan. This line is close to the site of the Railway Foundry where she was built in 1924. No.3 also closely resembles the last steam loco to work over the railway in NCB days in 1958. It is thus appropriate that she should have 'returned home' to Leeds.
No.3's steam boiler certificate expired in April 2021, so she is now out of traffic until completion of a ten-yearly inspection, which requires complete dismantling of the locomotive. The overhaul will be undertaken at the Middleton Railway. Progress reports may be found on the No.3 News page.
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