SKIPTON & DISTRICT RAILWAY SOCIETY
SKIPTON & DISTRICT RAILWAY SOCIETY
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Manning Wardle Class K 0-6-0ST Ringing Rock (a long way from home) standing IntroductionThe Skipton & District Railway Society was founded in 1968 by a group of people interested in prototype railways and in modelling them. Forty years later, we still have one founder member - Geoff Holmes. Nowadays, although the interest in prototype railways remains and the Society takes part in many prototype-related activities, the main interests of Society members are the construction of model railways and exhibiting the results of our work. The Society meets between 19:30h and 22:00h every Monday. Anyone wishing to visit the Society's clubrooms should contact the Secretary for instructions (contact details below).
Society ProfileIn addition to layout building on Monday evenings throughout the year, and the organisation of the Society's Annual Exhibition during the August Bank Holiday weekend, there is a monthly programme of events during the winter. In summer, outings are arranged on an ad hoc basis, often taking advantage of externally organised steam specials but sometimes informal visits to sites of railway interest. The winter programme usually runs approximately as follows:
During the winter, we also have occasional demonstration evenings, when members who have particular modelling skills will give demonstrations of their techniques and hands-on tutoring to anyone interested. The demonstrations often provoke lively discussion because, of course, no two modellers do things in exactly the same way. Despite the above, our main interest is building and exhibiting model railways. We usually spend most of our club nights on building exhibition layouts and only have running nights if they are rehearsals for exhibitions.
LayoutsAt present, the Society owns four layouts.
The Skipton Society also hosts an EM group and a Gauge O group. Members of these groups are also members of the Society but they finance their own layouts, rather than drawing on Society funds.
In addition, there are six privately owned members' layouts available for exhibition:
Annual ExhibitionThis is the most important event in the Society's calendar. The Exhibition takes place at Aireville School, Gargrave Road, Skipton, BD23 1UQ over the August Bank Holiday (Saturday, Sunday and Monday) each year. Opening times are 10:00 to 17:00 each day.
ClubroomsIn the middle of 2003 the Society moved to new clubrooms, which have been extensively refurbished by members. We now have a large L-shaped layout room which can accommodate three club layouts and still leave room for work-tables etc. In addition there is a library/meeting room with facilities for slide projection, video and DVD viewing, a kitchen, toilets and storage space.
LibraryThe Society has an extensive library of books and magazines, video tapes and DVDs, all available for loan to members. The subject matter covers railways and modelling.
Skipton RailsSkipton Rails is the Society's quarterly illustrated magazine. David Shillito, the Editor, pesters members for articles, which may cover any aspect of railways or the modelling of railways, or indeed, any other subject that the Editor considers will be of interest to members.
Society StructureThe Society structure is governed by its Rules and Constitution. These stipulate a Managing Committee of seven, each Committee member being elected for a period of one year at an Annual General Meeting. Managing Committee members may be re-elected indefinitely. All members of the Society are automatically placed on the list of candidates for election to the Committee unless they opt out. Each Society member present at the Annual General Meeting has seven votes - one for each Committee position. In this way we hope to keep the management of the Society as open and accountable as possible. Following the election, the Managing Committee then elects the Officers from amongst their number. Present Officers are:
Committee Members:
The Exhibition Committee is appointed by the Managing Committee. Present members are:
Our Logo 20F was the code for Skipton Loco Depot in steam days and we have adopted a 20F shedplate as our logo.
Contact InformationEnquiries about Society-owned layouts, Group layouts and all other correspondence on Society or Group matters should be addressed to the Secretary:
Enquiries about Members' layouts should be addressed directly to the owner of the layout. Contact details are given on the Members' Layouts page. [ Back to Top ]
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