Basingstoke Station circa 1915  

(Picture courtesy of Basingstoke Willis Museum)

Basingstoke Station 2010 

(Picture by Ian Francis)

Basingstoke Station 2012

  (Picture by David Brace)

  Welcome   LOCK-DOWN TRANSPORT ENTERTAINMENT

 

We are pleased you have found the official web site of the

Basingstoke & District Railway Society.

The Society was formed in 1974 to provide entertainment on railway related matters. 

We meet twice monthly on a Wednesday evening between 19.45 and 22.00 at the Wote Street Club in the Basingstoke Town Centre.

Our membership number is around 80, male and female, young and old, and our meeting attendance is typically 40. The majority of our meetings take the form of an illustrated presentation by a good quality speaker.

Members pay an annual subscription of £5, plus a reduced admission fee of £2 at each meeting and enjoy many other benefits.

Visitors are welcome at all our regular meetings on payment of a £3 admission fee. 

For those historians amongst you, we are pleased to include Chris Tolley's 'A History of the Railways around Basingstoke', accessible from our History page.

You can read much more About Us or can Contact Us by using these links or clicking on the tabs above.

With no future meetings to advertise in this spot, the following YouTube Transport links are suggested to help entertain and inform. Our member's interests range across many transport modes, and these will be reflected here. 

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Princess Elizabeth Class Build 1951

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmWZMRSmDQM

 

South Africa Railways Double Headed 15F

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHMvo2TJUZI

 

Ford V8 22HP 1936 Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtXJdm08djY

 

Panama Canal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c9HycC_wzg

 

 

 

To receive email notification before each meeting please send an email with subject "Subscribe" to Publicity@BDRS70D.com

 

Picture of the Month September 2020

 STOP PRESS NEWS

 

Photographed during the August 8th-9th Enthusiasts Weekend at the Statfold Barn Railway, Tasmanian Garret No 1was on show and in active steam publicly for the first time since arriving at Statfold  in November 2019. The K1 is an important and historical survivor, being the first locomotive built to the Garret Patent granted in 1907.For more information, go to:

https://www.festipedia.org.uk/wiki/K1

Photograph by Andy Fewster.

Why not enter your picture for next month?  eMail your image to: web@bdrs70d.com

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Please Note:

Given the current advice on the Coronavirus Pandemic, and the subsequent closure of the Society's meeting venue, the Wote Street Club, there will be no Society meetings until further notice. The membership will be notified as soon as possible if the situation changes.

In the meantime the committee extends its best wishes to all the members of the society.

 
 Member's Area   Other Forthcoming Events


Members can view archive and other Society material with password a*ccess on the Member Login page

 

 

 
  Items of Railway Interest   Society Members Photo Archive

For information about train movements through Basingstoke Station click here

The UK Steam Information website showing steam train schedules click here 

Rail fares between any two stations on the UK network click here

The live departure board for passenger trains from Basingstoke.  Click here

Get the cheapest tickets by splitting your journey!  Click here for the link to the web site with all the information  

Church Street Models, Basingstoke's specialist model shop. Click here for the link to their website.

 

External links to the photographic efforts of current and past society members.

Ian Francis

Andy Fewster
     Website
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Launched December 2009       Last updated: 2nd September 2020
his site was created by the late Chris Cullingham
and is now maintained by Members of the Society