NOVEMBER MONTHLY MEETING - Thursday 17th

Hi everyone, all aboard,

As Thursday 17th November is the third Thursday in the month, it means we will be holding the regular monthly meeting of the Re-open Woodhead Line, same time, same place, namely, Glossop Labour Club, Chapel St at 7.30pm, just behind the outdoor market square. Please feel free to come by and drop in, all welcome.

For no reason whatsoever, except it's a beautiful photo and I took it, here's a snap of the steam train used to mark the opening of the Rowsley to Matlock railway on 2nd of July this year. Here's a link to copy and paste into your browser if you want more details:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-14003558

As it's my photo and I own the copyright, please feel free to copy and paste it to your own site or your desktop with my permission. I'm not arsy about such things and I know how difficult it can be to get good photos for your blogs.

Hope to see some of you at the meeting.

AUTUMN MEETING - The Woodhead Special

SATURDAY 22ND OCTOBER 2011 - The WOODHEAD SPECIAL at St. John's Community Centre, Church St, Penistone.

Hi Folks,

As our members and regular readers will know by now, we normally meet at Glossop Labour Club on the third Thursday of each month. This month however is an exception to that rule and there will be no October meeting of the Re-Open Woodhead Line group until November, when we will be putting on a presentation regarding the future options for Woodhead. Details of that event will be posted nearer the time.

Instead we are encouraging our members and supporters to attend a special Woodhead event that has been organised by the Great Central Railway Society, details of which can be found below:

Autumn Meeting 2011: "The Woodhead Special"

Saturday 22 October 2011
at St.John's Community Centre, Church Street, Penistone, South Yorkshire S36 6AR.
5 minutes from the railway station.

10:30 - Doors open
11:00 - Talk by John Quick: "The Woodhead Line"
12:30 - Lunch break with displays and sales stand.
14:00 - Talk by Stephen Gay: "Woodhead: The Lost Railway"
16:15 - Meeting ends

The venue (pictured) is quite easy to find in the centre of Penistone and near the church, the giveaway being that it is located on Church St! For anyone coming from outside the area that is unfamiliar with the Penistone area, click the link below to get your bearings, then zoom in. Basically, we're talking the Woodhead side of Barnsley.

Map of Venue

The lovely town of Penistone is very accessible from the Sheffield side but not from the Manchester-Glossop area (that is to say by train of course) which is the whole raison d'etre of the Re-Open Woodhead Line group, namely to rectify this glaring transport inadequacy between two of England's major cities.

This special event features two of the best known and authorative speakers on the subject on Woodhead namely John Quick who gave a presentation for us in Glossop last St. Patrick's day and Stephen Gay, whose name goes before him and is synonymous with Woodhead itself.

The day will serve up a veritable feast for Woodhead enthusiasts and we encourage anyone who can attend this special event to do so - it deserves your support and promises to be a day to remember.

Re-open Woodhead Line - Monthly Meeting Thursday 17th February

A reminder for all our members and supporters that Thursday 17th February is the third Thursday in the month, which means that the Re-open Woodhead Line group meeting takes place on this date.

The venue is as per usual - the Labour Club in Chapel Street, Glossop, starting at 7.30 p.m.

The Labour Club, despite its name is politically unaffiliated.

ALL WELCOME