Tuesday 28 July found the Salvage Hunters team at Bishops Lydeard in the Gauge Museum. Chris Austin, Chairman of the Trust, was on hand to welcome them and to show them around the museum. Salvage Hunters is a television series that shows Drew Pritchard and Tee (John Tee) his long-time friend searching for old and…
The West Somerset Steam Railway Trust
July 2020
The Board of Trustees has now set a date for the 2020 AGM which will be Saturday 19th September at 2 PM. This will be by Zoom videoconference. The Board acknowledges that not all Members may be able to attend due to absence of or difficulties with, technology but have decided to hold the meeting…
The Minutes of the latest Board Meeting held on 16 July 2020 are now available for download. The document can also be found on the Documents page.
The West Somerset Steam Railway Trust is delighted to have received a £15,000 donation from the Peall Railway Trust. Trust chairman Chris Austin said ‘ We are hugely grateful for this generous donation which will be of such help as our museum donation boxes have so far remained empty this year.’ Simon Peall the Trustee…
The newly formed WSR Fundraising Group are issuing the attached document in order to assist the West Somerset Railway survive the effects of Covid 19. We realise you may already have contributed and seen this from a number of sources. A number of our members are also members of other parts of our large railway…
The Minutes of the meeting of the Partnership Development Group held on 26 June 2020 are now available.
Welcome to Gauge Junction, the model railway situated in the Gauge Museum at Bishops Lydeard. It is hoped that this is the first in a series of video’s that will be showing some of the winter and refurbishment work carried out by the Gauge Junction team. It is hoped you will all find the video…