The North Staffordshire Railway Study Group

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Introduction

The North Staffordshire Railway Study Group (NSRSG) was formed in October 1995 to bring together people with an interest in the North Staffordshire Railway, in order to increase the knowledge of the railway, and to improve the understanding of the role of the railway within the community it served.

The inaugural meeting of the Study Group agreed that the main aims of the group should be:

• to gather together as much surviving information as there is about the NSR
• to try to ensure that it is not lost
• to make such information more widely available to those who have an interest in the railway.

Meetings

The Group usually meets four times a year. Two meetings take the form of informal gatherings and the other two are more formal in nature - one taking in the AGM. The meetings are usually held in November (the AGM meeting), March, May and September and the indoor meetings are usually held at the Gladstone Pottery Museum, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.

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Publications

The Group currently publishes its newsletter, Loop Lines, six times per year and The Journal of the NSRSG bi-annually.

The Journal is the means by which the Group publishes articles on and about the North Staffordshire Railway. Follow this link for the Journal Index - an index into the content of all Journals. A small number of copies of each one remain available.

Loop Lines addresses membership matters for the Group and covers items of a more immediate and topical nature, such as advanced notice of Group meetings, other railway-related meetings, general items of railway news and members' queries (and hopefully the answers).

The Group is also organising the printing of reproductions of selected editions of the Working Timetable. The first two of these have been produced free-of-charge to Group members, though copies are also available to non-members at a cost of £6 from the Group Secretary (see below for contact details).

Finally the Group is building an archive of photographs, taken principally in the pre-Grouping era, which is being committed to CD-ROM. Topics currently covered include photographs of locomotives, coaches, stations, signals boxes, Stoke Shed and a miscellany of wagons, as well as groups of photographs from the collections of well-known authorities on the railway. This archive is available only to members, solely for their own use, and for a small charge.

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Current Studies

On-line Discussion Group

The Group maintains an on-line, moderated Discussion Group which is open to all Group members. Summaries of these discussions will be published in the Journal so that members unable to access the Internet are kept informed, and are also able to contribute via the Newsletter or Journal correspondence columns.

To access, and hopefully join, the Discussion Group (NSRSG members only)

• Go to groups.yahoo.com
• if you're a new egroups user then register as a new member (top left of the page)
• then when registered go to: NSRSG's Discussion Group page

When you visit the egroups site again you'll need to remember your password.

The eGroups site is fully searchable. Thus if "North Staffordshire", for example, is typed in the search facility, it will show the nsrail list straightaway. There are quite a few other UK orientated railway discussion groups on eGroups, such as ukhrail for preservation railway topics, and railc for historic carriage and wagon restoration projects.

Happy surfing!

Membership of the Study Group

Membership is open to anyone over the age of 16 years who aspires to learn more about the NSR and/or is able and prepared to pass on knowledge of the NSR. The membership fee is £15 p.a.

If you have any further enquiries about the NSRSG then please email or write to:

Mr. David Moore
6 Pennine Way
Biddulph
Staffs.
ST8 7EJ

Please don't forget to enclose an SAE.

If you would like to become a member of the NSRSG then please download the application form. (This is in RTF format and can be opened, after saving, with WordPad - available on all Windows 95/98 and NT systems, or in MS Word. Margin settings are 0.7", 0.8" and 0.5" - sides, top and bottom respectively ). Send the completed form, together with your remittance and an SAE to the above address. Alternatively you can request an Application Form from the above address, again enclosing an SAE.

If you have any specific questions about the Group you can email them to the Group Secretary and if you wish to comment on the Web Pages please email the Shedmaster.

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The Next Meetings - Update

Saturday Feb 23rd 2008 at 2 p.m. the AGM, followed by an Open meeting. At the Gladstone Pottery Museum, Longton.

Study evenings (members only) continue to be held on alternate Wednesdays at Stoke Station.

Web Page last updated : February 14th 2008

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From the Archive

Cover photo from Loop Lines No. 27.

‘D’ Class No 47 shunting wagons laden with hazel branches, used to make packing material for the pottery industry. The engine is in Victoria Brown livery. The number is on the buffer beams. The bunker-side plate is a Stoke Works plate, giving the year of build.

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