Join us now from £17 for membership lasting until the end of this year and receiving four magazines in total, starting with the spring 2023 issue.

To help support the Trust’s conservation and restoration activities, why not join us? It costs from just £17 per year and we look forward to welcoming you with a copy of our latest magazine.

If you wish to join us now, we offer you membership until the end of this year. We’ll welcome you with the spring magazine and you’ll receive the other three quarterly issues during this year.

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Membership benefits

Pines Express issue 312 cover

All members receive a copy of our quarterly magazine, the latest edition of which is the spring issue. There’s plenty of great reading material and photographic content, including:

– Cleethorpes to Exmouth via the S&D (part 1). Bob Curtis recalls how this long-distance service developed in order to open access between the east coast, through Birmingham, to the south coast and how it was run over the S&D

– A day out on the S&D in 1965. It was only a month before Tom Fraser would give his consent to the closure of the S&D but meanwhile, a young Tim Chapman was able to enjoy a day out on the S&D and despite the removal of through passenger traffic in 1962, there was still plenty to see.

– Washford – the end of an era. The Trust’s chairman Roger Hardingham reflects on nearly 50 years of progress at Washford, the site that we have recently vacated.

– Modelling Focus: the Twerton Co-op bakery sidings. Martin Goodey’s accurate model representation of the sidings and the surrounding area in Bath.

– S&D stations – Evercreech New. David Grimwood turns his attention to this station which was originally very busy with milk and cheese. Part 36 of the stations series.

– The summer of ’69 – walking the S&D (part 5). In part 4, following interrogation at Winsor Hill, Steve Ehrlicher had become ill and spent a few days recovering. In this part, he sets off once again from Shepton Mallet towards Evercreech Junction.

– The River Lydden bridge. The location of this bridge, between Sturminster Newton and Stalbridge, is little-known today owing to lack of access. Here, we present a set of photos from 1897 showing repair work on the bridge.

– Centre-spread photo. On 5 January 1962, Donald Beale and Peter Smith picked up the photographer G A Richardson at Blandford on a northbound journey with 73019. The centre spread shows Peter looking out from the cab while the loco is on the Bath Green Park turntable.

– Trust and general S&D news.

– Four-page pull-out sales supplement.

44 A4 pages including the sales supplement.