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Winter Lecture Series,  2024-25 season

Each lecture is held at Altrincham Methodist Church Hall, Barrington Road, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 1HF. Car park off Springfield Road or short walk from Altrincham Bus/Rail/Metrolink Interchange. Please use the main entrance on Woodlands Road side.

Friday 11th October. "In Search of Steam in Japan. Six different steam locomotives in steam on different days on the LCGB tour of Japan in August
2023" by John Owen.

Friday 8th November. "The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Then and Now" by Bob Barnard.

Friday 10th January. "Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Engine Sheds" by Noel Coates of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society.

Friday 14th February. "Macclesfield Area Railways in the 1950s and 60s" by Martin Welch.

Friday 14th March. "Navigation Road and All That" by Ted Buckley. Local rail scenes, mainly of steam, from the 1960s in the Altrincham and Dunham
Massey areas and elsewhere taken by Ted's father Bill Buckley.

Friday 11th April. "Steam, Diesel and Electric in the Northern Fells" by Ian Pilkington. A joint meeting with the Irish Railway Record Society
Manchester Branch.

All of the lectures start at 7.30pm and parking at the church is free.

Admission costs £4.00.

Free for AERPS members! (Show membership card)

Sales stand selling quality second-hand railway and transport books at reasonable prices.

Further details from — Andrew Macfarlane, 25 Prestbury Avenue, Timperley, ALTRINCHAM, Cheshire, WA15 8HY (0161) 928 9394


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© Updated July 24.