Merseyside, Cheshire & North Wales [MCN]
Welcome to the Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales branch pages. Below are listed the details of our programme for the next few months, showing the location of meetings together with reports of recent activities. Please let us know of any further information you require and if we can be of any help.
What's on
Venues
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Donations
There is no charge for guests or members to attend meetings but donations are encouraged and will go to the branch.
When attending a virtual meeting please donate here (in multiples of £2). When attending a physical meeting a cash collection will be taken.
Contacts
Treasurer
Meeting reports
Visit to Central Scotland
Seven members headed north of the border with the specific intention of riding on the reopened branch to Leven. We departed Warrington Bank Quay aboard 390118 [1S37 05.31 Euston –…
Read MoreVisit to South Wales
Following the debacle of the May visit to South Wales, when 67020 & 82229 failed at Church Stretton, the fixture was repeated successfully. Six Members attended, meeting at Cardiff Central at…
Read MoreVisit to South Wales (or not!)
Nine Members were due to attend this fixture but our train, 1V33 06.27 Man Pic – Cardiff Central, failed at Church Stretton because of a problem with the DVT 82229…
Read MoreEast Midlands Day Ranger
The branch made full use of the East Midlands Day Ranger ticket for their April outdoor fixture which had been put back one week owing to ASLEF strikes taking place…
Read MoreVisit to Doncaster
Only six members attended with several regulars being unavailable. The amount of freight seen was an improvement on the previous October 2023 Doncaster visit although traffic levels continue to disappoint.…
Read MoreCheshire Day Ranger
This fixture to Cheshire and Merseyside was well supported with 9 members attending and all meeting up at Chester station. We set off first of all to Shotton intending to…
Read MoreVisit to Stafford
In contrast to the Stafford December fixture the weather was sunny and very cold. Six members attended and were rewarded by a good deal of freight activity and several interesting…
Read MoreVisit to Stafford
Seven Members congregated at Stafford on the usual pre Christmas fixture. The new timetable was introduced on 11 December and there have been many changes to both LNWR & Avanti…
Read MoreVisit to Doncaster
The song, “Where have all the flowers gone” replaced by “Where have all the freight trains gone” could easily have applied to the MC&NW branch visit to Doncaster on the…
Read MoreVisit to Doncaster & Peterborough
Eight members attended arriving at Doncaster & Peterborough at different times and by different routes. Owing to the unreliability of TP services from Liverpool one member arrived at Doncaster @…
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