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The CRC meets at St.Paul’s Church Centre, Rossmore Road, Marylebone, London NW1 6NJ. This is an attractive refurbished hall which offers a comfortable environment for our meetings. It is a short walk north from Marylebone station on the west side of the line. Rossmore Road crosses over the railway at the station throat. Bus routes 139 from Waterloo to West Hampstead and 189 from Brent Cross to Oxford Circus pass the door. It is outside the congestion charge zone and parking is free after 18.30 on both single yellow lines and residents’ bays as well as on meters.
Meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month except August - doors open 18.30 for 19.15 start, and there is a small admission charge to cover the cost of hiring the hall: light refreshments are on sale from 18.30 and during the interval. A selection of new and second-hand railway books is also on sale.
The first part of the June meeting was our annual boadroom meeting. (click here for the minutes). Essentially meetings will follow the same pattern as previous years and season ticket rates will remain unchanged for 2009/10 in spite of increased costs.
Later in June we had a visit to Leighton Buzzard for a charter train using Baldwin 4-6-0T 779. Nearly a hundred members and friends enjoyed a very balmy and convivial afternoon and evening. Our thanks to the Leighton Buzzard for their hospitality.
The 2009/10 season continued on Thursday 8th October with a welcome return of ”Those were the days”, four members regaling us with scenes from times past. First on was Geoff Warren with an artistic view of latter day steam around Bulawayo. This was followed by John Cramp with a Western European miscellany. After the break Peter Greatorex took us to the steamy main-lines of Indonesia via a brief stopover in equally steamy but frigidly cold Anatolia. Finally Geoge Hart rounded off the evening with a DVD show of some of the last days on the Jingpeng Pass in northern China - equally chilly! Our thanks to all four for sharing their travels with us.
Our next meeting is -
Thursday 12th November - Steam on the Union Pacific by Tom Watson. This is a magnificent show of the latter days of UP steam. NOT TO BE MISSED!
Thursday 10th December - Balkan Memories 1964-2007 by Les Folkard.
Thursday 14th January 2010 - Sri Lanka, India & Pakistan in 1976 by Richard Awde
Thursday 11th February 2010 - Steam around the world in the 1960’s by Geoff Todd
Thursday 11th March 2010 - The Whitehouse Experience Part 2: a quarter of a century exploring foreign steam 1945-71 by Michael Whitehouse.
Meetings continue monthly until July 2010 - further details to follow.
All offers of presenting a show or part-show for future seasons will be welcomed: anyone prepared to assist please contact either Adrian Palmer (Email akpalmer@talktalk.net) who normally hosts the London meetings or the Meeting Coordinator Bob Stonehouse (Email robertdalew@hotmail.com)
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