The Ashover Light Railway Society

The Ashover Light Railway will be operating trains this weekend.

Hopefully we will be able to publish photos of this event in the coming days.

The draw for the March tote was as follows

1. CB of W Sussex wins £36.75

2. DB of East Bridgford wins £22.05

3  AE of Stocksbridge wins £14.70

Congratulations to all the winners. New members of the tote are always welcome. An application form can be found on the membership page of this website.

Just a brief note to alert our followers that the 2022 calendars are now sold out. The merchandise pages will be amended to show this.

ALRS members should have recently received issue 60 of Where The Rainbow Ends, the quarterly journal of the Society.

Inside you will find a report of this year’s AGM held at our Rowsley site. The rain held off for long enough to enable this to take place outdoors, with social distancing easy to achieve. After the main business part of the agenda was concluded members were able to witness the first public outing of the Jaywick locomotive under its own power. (Admittedly this was by courtesy of compressed air, progress towards steam operation continues)

October saw the Society’s first presence of the year at an external event in 2021 as all local shows etc. have been victims of the Covid pandemic. The event was organised by Ashover Parish Council, the Ashover History/Artefacts/Memorabilia exhibition in the parish hall. This was a well attended event.

Advance notice of the annual general meeting of the ALRS.

Members will receive written notification by post or email in the next few days, but a date for your calendar is our AGM.

This will be on Saturday September 25th 2021 starting at 11.30 at our Rowsley site. If the weather is fine we intend to meet outside as we did last year, but if the weather is inclement it will be held inside our workshops.

(This posting will be duplicated on our Facebook page)

The quarterly tote results are:-

1. A.E. of Sheffield £40.50

2. T.L. of Chesterfield £24.30

3. D.W. of N.York  £16.20

New members of the tote are always welcome. Application forms can be found on the membership page of this website.

The COVID-19 pandemic has effectively stopped all practical work at the Rowsley site (until next month)

The March tote results are available:-

!. DW of North Yorkshire wins £40.50

2. BL of Ripley wins £24.30

3. CB of Sussex wins £16.20

Application forms to joint the tote are available on the membership page on this website.

The tote for December 2020 has been drawn, and the results are listed below:-

1. JW of New Zealand £40.50

2. DM of Matlock £24.50

3. AE of Sheffield £16.20

Congratulations.

New members of the tote are always welcome, and an application form can be found on the membership page of this website.

The society’s AGM was held on September 19th in Covid secure conditions at our Rowsley site. The weather allowed for members to be seated at appropriate distances from each other in the sunshine, and to examine at close hand the progress that has been made at the site since the easing of Covid restrictions.

The next issue of WTRE (the Society’s quarterly magazine),due shortly,  will include an expanded copy of the chairman’s report so that absent members can kept fully up to date with progress.

Tribute was also expressed to the railway artist Eric Leslie whose work has formed the basis of our Christmas cards. (Cards can be purchased from the merchandise pages of this website.)