About Us |
Subscription
and Fees
(2020
rates)
Adult Membership £7.00
Junior Membership (under 16) £3.50
Meeting Admission Fees
Members £3.00
Junior Members (adult accompanied) £1.50
Visitors £5.00
Benefits
of
Membership
Annual Trips both in the UK with member's car-share an option and a European railway orientated long weekend.
An annual Society dinner for members and their partners.
Access to the Member's Area of this Website.
Railway books available as raffle prizes and to purchase.
A Photographic Competition - for the Steve Sachse Memorial Shield.
Our
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Governance
The Society is governed by a set of established rules and is managed by annually elected officers and committee members. The officers are the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer. Other Committee Members fulfil the roles of Programme Organiser, Newsletter Editor, Trips Officer, Overseas Tour Co-ordinator, Raffle Organiser, Membership Secretary, Publicity Officer, Website Coordinator and Information Technology Advisor. In addition the Society has an Honorary Auditor.
Society
History
The
Society
can
attribute
its
existence
to the
main line
“Return
to
Steam”
run of
Merchant
Navy
Pacific No
35028
“Clan
Line”
from Basingstoke
to
Westbury
on
Saturday
27 April
1974. This
resulted
in a
letter
(headed
“Trains”),
being
published
in the
Basingstoke
Gazette on
Friday 3
May 1974.
Members can read the full history of the Society over the following years by clicking on the Member Login page.
How
to Join
Come along to a meeting, if you like what you see ask for a Membership Application Form from the Membership Secretary (who normally collects the meeting admission fees at each meeting) or click the link to download a Membership Application Form, print it off and bring it along to a next Society meeting. Hand the completed form to the Membership Secretary, together with cash or cheque for the appropriate annual subscription. Alternatively, enclosing a cheque (no cash please), post the form directly to the Membership Secretary at the address given on the form.