Events

FEBRUARY 2010

Saturday 20th February 7.30pm   Film Show
The Severn Valley - old and new  with Karl Jauncey
Karl is well known for his photography of preserved steam but he also has an archive of rare film, some of which he will be presenting in this show.  As part of the celebrations to commemorate forty years of the present Severn Valley Railway, he will be showing footage from Hartlebury, Kidderminster, Stourport and Bewdley through Bridgnorth and Ironbridge to Shrewsbury.  This film was taken in the early 1960s before the line was shut by British Rail. He will also show film taken on the line from Wellington to Buildwas and Much Wenlock, and also the line that ran from Bewdley through Cleobury Mortimer and Tenbury Wells to Woofferton.  The second part of the show will feature the very early days of the current Severn Valley Railway, most of the film being shot some thirty five to forty years ago and showing a very different railway from that which the visitor sees today.  Conditions were often very primitive and much of the rolling stock and infrastructure needed total restoration.  It was a time when the average age of the volunteer was many years younger than that today, and there will be lots of clips of the people who were involved.  It was a period when Health & Safety legislation was a thing of the future!

The show starts at 7.30pm and will finish about 10.00pm.

MARCH 2010
 

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE MARCH DATES FOR FILM SHOWS ARE CHANGED
FROM THOSE WHICH WERE ORIGINALLY PUBLICISED

Saturday March 13th 7.30pm     Film Show
Full details to be announced later

The show starts at 7.30pm and will finish about 10.00pm.
 

Saturday March 27th - Film Show
The Severn Valley Railway and branches plus the East Midlands with Michael Clemens
Michael Clemens will be showing some more of his extensive library of cine film.  The first half will again look at the Severn Valley Railway and its branches before preservation but with very different footage in content and style than that shown on 20^th February.  The second part of the show will move a little further afield with some local shots around the Worcester area and then moving on to the SMJ, and then such places as Banbury, Buckingham, Leicester, Melton Mowbray, Bedford, Hitchin, Stoke Bank, Wolverton and many more.

The show starts at 7.30pm and will finish about 10.00pm.

APRIL 2010

Easter Monday April 5th    Postcard Fair   10.00am to 4.30pm
Your chance to add to your collection of Edwardian postcards, whether it is of a particular area, or a particular subject.  There will be several dealers present with large stocks for you to browse through so whether you are interested in local history or family history, this is a fair which should appeal to you.  A full list of dealers will be posted shortly.

Saturday April 10th   7.30pm     Film Show
Railways Remembered -  Along LNER lines with Rob Foxon
Rob Foxon will be giving another show from his extensive film library, this time about the LNER, with special tributes to the Great Central Railway, with visits to Annesley, Banbury and Neasden sheds in the 1930s, and a film about the Metropolitan Railway in 1928.  In addition there will be films featuring the Great Northern Railway 100 years ago, the Brill Tramway, the North Sunderland Light Railway in the 1930s, Whitemoor Marshalling Yard, Sheffield Victoria in 1936, the LNER Railway Exhibition in 1938 and the post-War 1500DC electrification of the former GCR Manchester-Sheffield route - plus much more!

The show starts at 7.30pm and will finish about 10.00pm.

Advance notice  

Postcard Fairs
There will be three postcard fairs in 2010 -
Easter Monday 5th April
Saturday August 7th
Saturday December 4th

Railway Photograph Fairs
The next railway photograph fair will be held on Saturday July 10th

Museum photos on the road
For future dates, please see our separate page or click here

For more information about these events, please contact Kidderminster Railway Museum at events@krm.org.uk or ring 01562 825316.