Newcastlesls - Stephenson Locomotive Society : Newcastle Centre

Next meeting Newcastle Arts Centre this Friday (8th November 2024). Visitors welcome.

First talk of 2024 - Friday 12th January. Please visit our website for our upcoming talks!

Next diary date:

Just before packing up at the Aln Valley Railway - sales stand.

Sunday 4th September 2022.

This impressive lineup of locos at the coaling stage at Capital Park shed, Pretoria, on 21st August 1976 includes 19D No 3366 in the centre with the blue S2 No 3793 just beyond it.

The 19D No 3366 was one of the batch built by North British in Glasgow in 1948.

Photo by kind permission of Trevor Ermel.

91106, with vinyls advertising 'The Great Exhibition of the North', which ran mainly on Tyneside during that summer, crosses the Tyne into Newcastle on 7th June 2018. Photo by T. Ermel.

Updates coming soon!

Please check our website for our next meeting planned for Sep 2020:

Home Railway society based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Programme of Lectures and Meetings.

Are you currently enjoying the sun?

What will do when the nights start to draw in again?

Then please don't forget the is back in September! With a wide range of interesting presentations about railways, why not have a Friday night on the town with us? Small donation to get in, a raffle ticket to buy and still some change from a fiver, or splash the cash on our book stall if it takes your fancy?

Hope to see you there, all our meetings are listed on the page!

Enjoy the summer for now though, simply glorious!

Our for the is now listed on our Facebook events, please take a look and see if any whet the appetite on a Friday night!

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