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Autumn Steam Gala news
The WSR’s Gala Planning Team are pleased to be able to announce some of the locomotives that will be visiting the line and working trains at the Autumn Gala between Thursday 27th and Sunday 30th September 2018. Our theme of “Cross country railways” aims to celebrate the large variety of locos and trains that worked...Read More »
Statement from the WSRA board of Trustees
Rodney Greenway was elected to the Association Board on 30 September 2017, and Frank Courtney on 7 July 2018. Both are aware of their duty as trustees as laid down in the Charity Commission’s publication The Essential Trustee. On 16 April 2018 the Association Board responded to a request from the Board of the Plc...Read More »
Blue Anchor wins Best Kept Station 2018 award
At an awards ceremony, held in the Gauge Museum at Bishops Lydeard yesterday evening, Blue Anchor station was awarded Best Kept Station award for 2018. Station representatives Gill and Ivor Baulch were presented with the engraved trophy, a certificate and a ‘cheque’ for £100 to be spent on the station. Runners up were Williton and...Read More »
Fundraising Goal achieved
The WSRA has achieved its latest fundraising target to raise £473 to provide the materials for volunteers to complete the overhaul of a 1942 MoD Brake Van, and facilitate the recreation of a typical military freight train of the 1939/1945 era to run on the WSR. The campaign ran from 8th to 25th June and...Read More »
AGM papers available for download
The papers for the 23rd Annual General Meeting of the West Somerset Railway Association are now available for download from the Documents page of this website. The meeting will be held on Saturday 7th July at 2:00pm in Bishops Lydeard Village Hall. To speed up the entrance process please bring your current membership card with...Read More »

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