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The Swanage Railway Trust
Registered Office
Station House
Swanage, Dorset

BH19 1HB

          




2010...
take action for the next decade
the more we give, the more we shall achieve


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Renewal/application form (pdf)

Click the Purbeck Railway Circle link for details, you’d be welcome at any of their meetings if you’re in the area
and you’d be amazed at the wide range of railway matters they feature
Purbeck Railway Circle programme

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Gala Day Goods

Gala Day Goods - Drummond M7 30053 leaves Harmans Cross on 12th September 2009

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Welcome to all 200 Club members and especially to those wanting to find out about the Railway and the 200 Club. I hope you will decide to become a member of Swanage Railway if you're not and, of course, the 200 Club. Railway members can download a 200 Club joining/renewal form (pdf) by clicking on the link above right.

Please click here for the Swanage Railway Trust membership application form, which is now in Adobe Acrobat format and can be printed out and sent with your membership fee to the Membership Secretary at the Swanage Railway Trust, Station House, Swanage, Dorset, BH19 1HB.

I am very grateful to Chris Youlden, a fellow volunteer and PRC treasurer, for this Information webpage provided by him which enables wider publication of details about the 200 Club. Thank you Chris and for all the help you give to me throughout the year.

I am grateful, too, to Andrew Wright, our Railway photographer for the photographs of the bridge, our previous 200 Club project, and the Corfe Castle signalbox - there are many more photographs of his to see on www.swanagerailway.co.uk - just follow the links. 
CC Bridge
Train by footbridge
......from one great
achievement to another.......
On top of the world - what a view!
John Drew (left) and Pete Frost (right)
Roger Stewart-Hindley, Pete Frost, John Drew, Peter Ball
prepare a corner post for the roof

Renewal Time

You can renew any time from October for the coming year.

Your renewals are greatly welcome and so are all new members. A very big thank you to all those who have taken out extra subscriptions at any time, your subscriptions provide many of the Railway's essential needs and achievements. I assure you that there is no limit to the number of extra subscriptions that you can take out or when you wish to start  – just pay for the total up to the end of any year (December) -  you will receive a renewal reminder in about October each year.

All renewal reminders include details of your subscription numbers and your Trust membership number either on your envelope label if I write to you or with the email I send you.

The target for subscriptions is 1000, we're only a small number away from this target. 

So, it will be good to receive your renewals – please send them in by early December before Christmas matters start to take over!

If you are reading this webpage for the first time and are not a 200 Club member, you’d be very welcome to join us – Pete Ashton, our treasurer, will be pleased to receive your cheque any time! And it is always a pleasure for me  to ‘sign up’ a new member into the database! You will see on the form that you have to be a Trust member and over 16 – you can download a form now from this webpage (top right).


A full year’s membership of one year’s subscription is £15 – January to December. Any number of subscriptions can be taken out at any time to December in any year at the rate of £1.25 per month. Please join us.

You are welcome to email me, David Saunders, with any matter about the 200 Club – railway@davidfsaunders.org.uk or telephone me or fax on 01202 882022; you can write to me or Pete Ashton, our treasurer, too, c/o Station House and Pete now has an email facility – peter.ashton@mypostoffice.co.uk. Thank you for all your support, the 200 Club does a great job for the Railway, please keep subscribing! It will be good to receive your renewal well before the December rush! And please consider an extra subscription in 2010, they're always welcome.

Keep a lookout for details of the celebration of 125 years of the Swanage line in 2010.

And now some 'latest news' - a new project has been chosen for the 200 Club for 2010 to follow the signalbox at Corfe Castle - fitting out the new building to be erected early next year on the Harman's Cross down platform. This is a short-term project with, hopefully, a new major project to follow - please watch for news in the SRM, hopefully, later next year.

I hope we will all continue to subscribe and support this important new development of our very attractive Harman's Cross station.


David Saunders   Secretary, 200 Club
Pete Ashton   Treasurer and Founder, 200 Club


Details of Prizes

Prizes are higher at Christmas and in MidSummer but it’s worth winning at any time of year!

The Mid Summer Draw (June) is for £150, £100, £50, £30 and £20

The Christmas Draw is for £250, £150, £100, £75, £45 and £30

Try your luck at the other monthly draws £50, £40, £30, £25 and £20

You never know when you’ll win!

Please read on...
Review of over 30 years of the 200 Club

Many of you may have read Nona’s brief history of the 200 Club that she published in the magazine in 2005. As a reminder and for the newcomers you may like to read edited extracts from it...

         Read more.......

Corfe Castle Bridge Achievement

Our Railway bridge-builders scooped a magnificent award, the plaque for which is in place on the up platform of Corfe Castle station. This last project is there to view, the Corfe Castle footbridge, the award was made by the National Heritage Railway Association in December 2007. Philip Wycliffe-Jones and his bridge builders achieved a magnificent work and the judge’s remarks when visiting the Railway were a great tribute to the team –

"The Swanage Railway is wonderfully served by such competent, committed and humorous railwaymen".



MBNA card



 May I also encourage you to support the Railway further, by taking out an account for the Railway Visa Card – just telephone MBNA on 0800 028 2440 and request an application form, mentioning the Swanage Railway. Please promote the Railway as you make purchases by using the Swanage Railway Visa card with its excellent image of the M7!

200 Club Draws

A day on the tiles - John Drew measures up
Not for the faint-hearted - the team carry
almost 2000 tiles to the top
Rest assured my activities for the 200 Club Monthly Draw are fully scrutinised by three friends, one of whom is a Railway member and the other two quite enthusiastic about the Railway, although I haven't been able to get them to join!

They are Jeanette, Margaret and Freda. I welcome recently Bob Wareham, whom you may see in Swanage Booking Office, and who has agreed to deputise for me when necessary. 

I am pleased to say that no loose numbers on cards or paper are to be seen now - all winners are randomly selected by computer, much easier!
First train of the day
Early morning at Grosmont
Release of pressure and setting off for Pickering
A VIP in September morning sun at Grosmont NYMR
Signs of Spring at Harman's Cross
Icons of the Past
Power at Poole Station
A Manston Spring 2009 at Harmans Cross
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No end of the line
No end of the line for the 200 Club...!

Edited by David Saunders and Chris Youlden Oct 2009