WHAT’S HAPPENING, WHERE AND WHEN
GALAS & ENTHUSIAST EVENTS October
6-9 Great Central Autumn Steam Gala 6-9 West Somerset Autumn Steam Gala 7-9 Keighley & Worth Valley Autumn Steam Spectacular 8 Bodmin & Wenford ‘Behind the Scenes’ & Modellers’ Day 8 Gwili Autumn Gala 8/9 Apedale Valley Steam Centenary Weekend 8/9 ‘Locomotion’ NRM Shildon Model Railway Exhibition 8/9 Middleton Model Mania 9 Amberley Autumn Industrial Trains & Historic Transport Gathering 9 Isle of Man Heritage Open Day 9 Isle of Wight Island Steam Day 9, 16, 23 Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway Risborough Preview Days 13-16 East Lancs Flying Scotsman Returns 13-16 Warwickshire Exhibition Centre 39th Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition 14-16 Dean Forest ‘Prairie’ Farewell Weekend (16 Flour Mill Open Day) 14-16 Swanage Autumn Steam Gala 15 Elsecar Twilight Steam photography event 15 Plym Valley Railway Association Model Railway Show, Yealmpton Community Centre 15, 29 STEAM Museum Meet the Railway Workers 15/16 Avon Valley End of Season Gala ‘Industrial Roots’ 15/16 Ecclesbourne Valley Model Railway Exhibition 15/16 Kirklees 25th Anniversary Celebrations 16 Rocks by Rail Gala Open Day 21-23 Mid-Hants Autumn Steam Gala 22 Tanfield Photographic Evening 22/23 Chatham Dockyard Railway running weekend 22/23 ‘Locomotion’ NRM Shildon Toy Train Event 23 Tanfield Colliery Railways Day 28-30 Bluebell Giants of Steam 29/30 North York Moors NELPG 50th anniversary 29/30 South Devon Half-Price Weekend 30 Bredgar & Wormshill Gala Day 30 Bressingham Last Day of Season
November
3 ‘Head of Steam’ Darlington Afternoon Lecture ‘Railways of Sierra Leone’ 4-6 Severn Valley Season Finale Gala 5 Cambrian Railways Last Passenger Train Commemoration (50th anniversary of closure) 5/6 Elsecar Barnsley Model Railway Club show 5/6 ‘Locomotion’ NRM Shildon Cab It! 5/6 Romney Hythe & Dymchurch End of Season Parade & Light Railway Get-Together 6 Moors Valley Tank Engine Day
VINTAGE & TRANSPORT EVENTS October
7-9 Ffestiniog Victorian Weekend 8/9 Beamish Power from the Past 8/9 Cholsey & Wallingford 1940s Weekend 8/9 Kent & East Sussex Austin Counties Car Rally 8/9 Rushden Transport Museum LMS Branchline at War 9 Bodmin & Wenford Victorian Day 9 Colne Valley at War 9 GCR (Nottingham) Road Transport Event 14-16 North York Moors Railway in Wartime 16 East Anglian Railway Museum Great War Exhibition Launch 23 Churnet Valley American Car & Music Day
November
5/6 Beamish Power from the Past
❚ REAL ALE EVENTS October
7-9 Whitwell & Reepham Beer Festival and barbecue 15 Great Central Real Ale Train 15 Llangollen Real Ale Train 15/16 Isle of Wight Beer & Buses Event 20-23 Keighley & Worth Valley Beer & Music Festival