EVENTS DIARY
• GALAS & ENTHUSIAST EVENTS SEPTEMBER
8-10 Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway - Steam Gala 9 Elsecar Heritage Railway - Heritage Open Day 9 Statfold Barn Railway - Enthusiast Day 9/10 & 23/24 Bristol Harbour Railway - Open Days 9/10 Cambrian Heritage Railways - Heritage Open Days 9/10 Chasewater Railway - Summer Gala 9/10 & 16/17 Chatham Dockyard Railway - Operating Days 9/10 Kirklees Light Railway - Steam & Diesel Gala Weekend 9/10 Leighton Buzzard Railway - Iron War Horse Centenary 9/10 Mid-Suffolk Light Railway - Steam Railway Gala 9/10 Nene Valley Railway - Mixed Traffic Gala 9/10 Ribble Steam Railway - Gala Weekend 9/10 South Downs Light Railway - Steam Gala 10 Isle of Wight Steam Railway Heritage Goods Day 15-17 Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways - Super Power Weekend 16/17 Locomotion NRM Shildon - Autumn Steam Gala 16/17 Middleton Railway - Steam Weekend 16/17 Moors Valley Railway - Autumn Gala 16/17 Nene Valley Railway - ‘Pacifics’ 16/17 Rudyard Lake Steam Railway - Steam Gala 16/17 S&D Midsomer Norton - Heritage Weekend 17 Rocks by Rail - Oxfordshire Ironstone Company Remembered Gala 21-24 Barrow Hill Roundhouse - September Relaunch 21-24 Severn Valley Railway - Autumn Steam Gala 21 & 27 Talyllyn Railway - Victorian Train Experience 22-24 Bodmin & Wenford Railway - China Clay Gala 23 Appleby-Frodingham RPS - Brake Van Tour 23/24 Aln Valley Railway - Everything Goes Gala 23/24 Bluebell Railway - Steam Through the Ages 23/24 Devon Railway Centre - Everything Goes! 23/24 Didcot Railway Centre - Anything Goes Weekend 23/24 Eastleigh Lakeside Railway - Small Engines Visiting Loco Weekend 23/24 Foxfield Railway - Autumn Gala 23/24 Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway - End of Season Gala 23/24 West Lancashire Light Railway - 50th Anniversary Gala Weekend 24 Gartell Light Railway - Open Day 24 Scottish Industrial Railway Centre - Steam Day 29-Oct 1 Epping Ongar Railway - Autumn Steam Gala 29-Oct 1 North Yorkshire Moors Railway - Annual Steam Gala 30 Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway - Goods Train Day 30-Oct 1 Leighton Buzzard Railway - Fifty Not Out 30-Oct 1 Lynton & Barnstaple Railway - Autumn Gala
OctOBER
1 & 29 Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway - Open Days 1 Buckinghamshire Railway Centre Steam Gala 1 North Ings Farm Railway - Open Day 1 Yeovil Railway Centre - Steam Train Day 5-8 Great central Railway - Autumn Steam Gala 5-8 West Somerset Railway - Autumn Steam Gala 7 Abbey Pumping Station - Railway Day 7/8 Beamish - Power from the Past 7/8 Bowes Railway - Open Days 7/8, 21/22 & 28/29 Bristol Harbour Railway - Open Days 7/8 Chasewater Railway - Coal Train Weekend 8 Churnet Valley Railway - Double Header Day 8 Isle of Wight Steam Railway - Heritage Goods Day 13-15 Llangollen Railway - Autumn Steam Gala 13-15 Swanage Railway - Autumn Steam Gala 14/15 East Lancashire Railway - Autumn Steam Gala 14/15 Ecclesbourne Valley Railway - EVR 150 14/15 Royal Deeside Railway - End of Season Gala 15 Rocks by Rail -Autumn Steam Gala 15 Tanfield Railway - Colliery Railways 20-22 churnet Valley Railway - cVR25 Anniversary Gala 21 Elsecar Heritage Railway - Twilight Steam 21/22 Battlefield Line - Anything Goes Gala 21/22 Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway - Steam Gala 21/22 & 28/29 Chatham Dockyard Railway - Operating Days 21-29 Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway - Oktoberfest 28 Leighton Buzzard Railway - Steam Glow 28/29 Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway - End of Season Parade 29 Gartell Light Railway - Open Day 29 Leighton Buzzard Railway - Small Engines Day
• VINTAGE & TRANSPORT EVENTS SEptEmBER
8-10 Swanage Railway - classic transport Rally 9 Abbey Pumping Station Museum - Heritage Open Day 9/10 Bure Valley Railway - Steam in Miniature 9/10 Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway - 1940s Weekend 9/10 Lincolnshire Wolds Railway - Lincolnshire Heritage Weekend 9/10 Swindon & Cricklade Railway - Wartime Weekend 10 East Lancashire Railway - Vintage Transport Gathering 10 Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway - Classic Vehicle Day 10 Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway - Bus Rally Day 10 Severn Valley Railway - On the Buses 16/17 Amberley Museum - Miniature Steam Weekend 16/17 Chatham Dockyard Railway - Salute to the 40s 16/17 Battlefield Line 1940s Weekend Operation Market Bosworth 16/17 North Norfolk Railway - 1940s Weekend 17 Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway - Classic Wheels Car Show 17 Old Kiln Light Railway - Classic Vehicle Gathering 23/24 Avon Valley Railway - 1940s Weekend 23/24 Bluebell Railway - Steam Through the Ages 23/24 Buckinghamshire Railway centre - traction Engine Rally 23/24 Crewe Heritage Centre Wheels of War Weekend 24 Amberley Museum - Amberley Autumn Bus Show & Running Day 24 Beamish - Classic Car Day 24 Bressingham - Vintage Farming Day 24 Leighton Buzzard Railway - Sand & Motorcycles 30-Oct 1 Churnet Valley Railway - War in the Valley 2017 OctOBER 6-8 Ffestiniog Railway - Victorian Weekend 7/8 Cholsey & Wallingford Railway - 1940s Weekend 7 Crewe Heritage Centre - Toy & Train Collectors’ Fair 8 Amberley Museum - Autumn Historic Transport Gathering 8 Great Central Railway (Nottingham) - Late Season Road Transport Event 16 Mid-Norfolk Railway - Classic Vehicles Day 21/22 Rushden Historical Transport Museum - LMS Branch Line at War
• REAL ALE EVENTS SEptEmBER
5-9 East Anglian Railway Museum - Chappel Beer Festival 8-10 Crewe Heritage Centre - South Cheshire CAMRA Rail Ale Festival 8-10 East Lancashire Railway - Ale on the Rails 9 Ecclesbourne Valley Railway - Cider with Rosie Evening 9 Kent & East Sussex Railway - HopFest Real Ale Train 9 Llangollen Railway - Real Ale Train 14-17 Great Central Railway - Beer Festival 15-17 Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway - Rail Ale & Blues Festival 16 Llangollen Railway - Oktoberfest 22 Keith & Dufftown Railway - Autumn Whisky Festival 22-24 Rushden Historical Transport Museum - Music & Real Ale Festival 23 Epping Ongar Railway - Real Ale Train 23/24 Isle of Wight Steam Railway - Cider & Cheese Weekend
OctOBER
14/15 Isle of Wight Steam Railway - Beer & Buses 20-22 Spa Valley Railway - 7th CAMRA Real Ale & Cider Festival • OTHER EVENTS
SEPTEMBER
9-10 Rushden Historical Transport Museum - Model Weekend 23 Elsecar Heritage Railway - Garden Railway Show
OCTOBER
1 East Anglian Railway Museum - All Trains Great and Small 7 Bure Valley Railway - Model Rail Express