30 Years and Counting - Re-open the Woodhead Line Calendar for 2011

Woodhead Station and tunnel

2011 marks 30 years since the cessation of the Woodhead line. To commemorate this anniversary the Re-open the Woodhead Line group have a bumper line up of activity planned - for the first time including collaborations with other rail campaigns on both sides of the Pennines.

Attend one of our planning meetings or come along to an event if you want to get involved with the campaign and help us achieve our aims.

7.30pm, Thursday 17th February 2011
OPEN CAMPAIGN MEETING
Glossop Labour Club

7.30pm Thursday 17th March 2011
SLIDE SHOW/VIDEO PRESENTATION ON HISTORY OF WOODHEAD LINE,
(followed by open campaign meeting), Glossop Labour Club

Thursday 17th April 2011
Spring Newsletter copy deadline

7.30pm, Thursday 21st April 2011
OPEN CAMPAIGN MEETING
Glossop Labour Club

7.30pm, Thursday 26th May 2011
PUBLIC MEETING AT GUIDE BRIDGE with Friends of Reddish South Station (FoRSS) and Friends of Denton Station railway campaigns
Guide Bridge Theatre (tbc)

Thursday 9th June 2011
Summer newsletter copy deadline

June 2011
Presentation and OPEN CAMPAIGN MEETING with Don Valley Railway
in Penistone/Sheffield date and location tbc

Saturday 16th July 2011
EVENT: COMMEMORATION OF 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF WOODHEAD LINE CLOSURE
Wreath laying at Manchester Piccadilly, folk train, cycle/walk to line's mid-point, all details tbc

Thursday 11th August 2011
Autumn Newsletter copy deadline

7.30pm, Thursday 18th August 2011
OPEN CAMPAIGN MEETING,
Glossop Labour Club

August/September 2011
GEOLOGICAL/HISTORY WALK over Woodhead
Details TBC

7.30pm Thursday 15th September 2011
OPEN CAMPAIGN MEETING

September 2011
Penistone Show stall

7.30pm Thursday 20th October 2011
OPEN CAMPAIGN MEETING

Sat 22nd October 2011
Joint event with Don Valley Railway at the GCRS day in Penistone.
See http://www.gcrsociety.co.uk/events.html
"The Woodhead Special" at St. John's Community Centre, Church Street, Penistone, South Yorkshire S36 6AR



10:30 - Doors open

11:00 - Talk by John Quick: "The Woodhead Line"

12:30 - Lunch break

14:00 - Talk by Stephen Gay: "Woodhead: The Lost Railway"

16:15 - Meeting ends


Thursday 10th November 2011
Winter Newsletter copy deadline

7.30pm Thursday 17th November 2011
OPEN CAMPAIGN MEETING

December 2011
Woodhead CHRISTMAS QUIZ/SOCIAL