WESTON-SUPER-MARE RAILWAY SOCIETY TIMELINE

Listed below are the major events, trips and visits which the Society has been involved in over the years, starting of course with….

1977 - Our Inaugural meeting, Tuesday 8th March 1977, at 8pm, in the NALGO Club, Carlton St, WsM. The first Committee meeting was held just a week later on 15th March 1977.

Founding Committee members included Martin Hillier (publicity & trading Officer), Cliff Bracey (secretary), Ken Baker (Newsletter), and David Huntley (Chairman)

November 1977 - Roy Patterson elected as Chairman, a post he held until standing down in November 2005!!

Details not recorded of the evening coach trips in the first six years of the Society, but most featured coach trips to view the remains of closed local railway lines, followed by a visit to a local hostelry!

1978 -The Societies' first coach trips- in May to the Bluebell Railway, and in September to the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, Haworth

A photo from our first society trip in May 1978 to the Blue Bell Railway. 21C 123 hauled our train on a day of early rain followed by late sun.

1979 - A proposed trip to the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway which was ultimately cancelled