News & Events (Updated 26 Jun 2008)
Four Societies joint working initiative
A Working Party of members of The Locomotive Club of Great Britain, The Railway Club, The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society and the The Stephenson Locomotive Society have been assessing ways in which joint collaberation can benefit the four societies. Their report has now been finalised and various proposals will be taken forward. Issues relevant to the SLS will be followed through. (Added 29 Mar 2008)
Changes in Officers
The Journal editor is now Brian Dotson and the Promotions & Publicity Officer is John New. (Item added 24 Feb 2008)
Meetings
Details for the few remaining gaps in our 2007/8 indoor meetings winter season now supplied and Meetings by Date/Centre page and Perpetual Calendar are complete. Orion steamings at Shildon also added. (item updated 20 Jan 08)
Virgin media use SLS site photo in feature on railways. We are not sure how long this feature on railways will be on the Virgin site but picture 1 in the set is one of our photographs from the Surrey Iron Railway visit. (Item added 29 Jul 07)
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Site update log -
2008
26 Jun - Updating site continues for the winter meetings calendar. 2008/9 winter season ALL CENTRES - Work in progress list here in pdf format. The Perptual Calendar and Meetings by Centre pages will be updated in due course.
16 Jun - (1) One off events - Additional information for visit to the Tanfiled Railway on 6 July and correction to the Midland Centre summer pyramme as the second trip has been revised to a visit to the Swindon & Cricklade Railway on 6 Sept. See also Perpetual Calendar. (2) Caption corruption corrected on index page.
5 June - One off event details of the Severn Valley trip on 7 Jun updated and new date added for visit to the Tanfiled Railway on 6 July. See also Perpetual Calendar.
5 May - Sorry for the slight delay to the monthly update for April. The Contents of the next Journal (edition 851) added with consequential update of the cover image and addition of the Lord Nelson image to the Pictures on freeview page. Details of Midlands Area led summer trips added to the One Off Meetings & Visits page. Past meetings dates removed from the Perpetual Calendar. Newcastle Centre meetings for Sep through Dec 08 added. Update also to the page covering the life and work of George & Robert Stephenson. A substantial article covering locomotive Working on the Lickey in the 1970s added to the members only Yahoo Group
29 Mar - Index page and this page updated with news item relating to the Four Societies Working Party report. Links block on index page also revised. All links from the joint links page tested and several new links added. Library catalogue page and links to it revised as it was noted the link pointed only to the mirrored pages. No change visible to readers but please change your bookmark from pointing to the mirror site to the main site.
16 Mar - Link error discovered and fixed on SLS LIbrary page. No further updates expected until 26th March
28 Feb - Revised meeting dates Kidderminsterand Barnet. Sadly also an update to the Obituaries page and In Memorium list. Journal details for March/April also added and cover photo from edition 849 added to freeview pictures list.
24 Feb - (1) Recent Officer name changes added to this page (as above) plus removal of now time expired news information from this page and the Home page. (2) Site-wide updates to email addresses. New generic address for Society general enquiries and for Journal specific emails added.
20 Jan - January housekeeping update to the Perpetual Calendarincluding the addition of Orion's steaming dates at Locomotion Shildon in 2008 to the Orion page and also on the Index page. Other minor editing also to Orion page.
7 Jan (Update 1) Important notification of a significant typographical error re the election of General Treasurer at the AGM (See Journal page and Members Only Extra pages. (Update 2) This page updated by removal of the 2007 log to own page. All indoor meeting details are now to hand therefore final anticipated updates to the Meetings by Date/Centre page and the Perpetual Calendar made. The Meetings by centre page deliberately retains the full 2007/8 programme to show prospective members the variety available. The Perpetual Calendar has however been stripped of obsolete 2007 data for clarity.
6 Jan - Happy New Year to all. Updates to Meetings by Date/Centre page and Perpetual Calendar. Temporary Christmas/New Year banner now reverted to standard.
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