Posts by MCN Merseyside Cheshire and North Wales

The original plan for this month’s branch trip had been to travel to Glasgow, and onwards with a Strathclyde Ranger ticket. However, recent disasters travelling north up the West Coast…

It is a policy of our branch that at least one of the monthly fixtures in the UK each year should be to a heritage railway. The chosen railway for…

This fixture to Cardiff, programmed several months previously, unfortunately coincided with the closure of the Severn Tunnel, so we knew in advance that there would as a result be less…

Ashington station, about 20 miles north of Newcastle, was closed by Beeching in 1964. In December 2024, after a £298m project, it was finally reopened to passenger traffic. The intermediate…

This fixture was organised with a view to making best use of a West Midlands Day Ranger ticket. On a bright, sunny, but rather chilly day, eight members met up…

Only four members attended with several regulars being unavailable. Click the link below for a list of observations compiled by Brian Roberts…. RCTS Doncaster – Recordings 11

The aim of this outing was for the Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales branch to make the best possible use of an East Midlands Day Ranger ticket in deepest midwinter.…

On 14 January 2025 six members of the RCTS met at Stafford station for a fixture which had been originally planned for 7 January but had been postponed owing to…

This fixture took the form of our Branch’s annual pre-Christmas knees-up, although advancing years for several of us preclude knees being lifted very high. Nevertheless a jolly group of eight…

The monthly trip of the RCTS Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales branch took place on 12 November.  We used the South Pennines Day Ranger ticket instead of a West Yorkshire…