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07/10/23 - Fareham Model Rail exhibition
22/10/23 - Wimborne 'O' Gauge show
29/11/23 - WWRUG meeting

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4th Oct (1976)

HST - first public service (*)

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Subject	Started by	Replies	Views	Last post
Active rail campaigns across the area we cover « 1 2 »	grahame	23	23347	March 31, 2023, 12:40:16 pm by RichardB
Running a meeting?	grahame	7	12324	February 17, 2020, 07:30:00 am by grahame
Partnership between Network Rail and heritage railway - Severn Valley	grahame	4	671	September 25, 2023, 04:32:23 am by broadgage
Gainsborough to Grimsby - a sad case with a possible light ahead? « 1 2 »	grahame	17	9514	September 24, 2023, 08:58:27 pm by froome
do you think there is young persons railcard coach	infoman	2	159	September 24, 2023, 04:22:18 pm by grahame
Reopening Cullompton and Wellington stations (merged topic) « 1 2 ... 8 9 »	FlyingDutchman	134	73432	September 18, 2023, 05:16:15 pm by infoman
AI creates an underground system for Reading	Marlburian	2	449	September 09, 2023, 03:27:05 pm by Marlburian
What might have been - Westbury to Brussels and Swindon to Paris	grahame	3	932	August 22, 2023, 11:17:28 pm by Noggin
Portishead Line reopening for passengers - ongoing discussion « 1 2 ... 69 70 »	Lee	1043	356315	June 23, 2023, 07:12:52 pm by Bmblbzzz
Bridport branch reopening proposal « 1 2 »	Hal	17	4855	June 19, 2023, 02:42:26 pm by bradshaw
East - West Rail update (Oxford to Bedford) - ongoing discussion « 1 2 ... 21 22 »	Lee	320	132636	June 14, 2023, 01:14:36 pm by Red Squirrel
New bid to reopen St Anne’s Park Station « 1 2 »	Noggin	21	5075	June 09, 2023, 10:53:59 am by johnneyw
How you'd reopen a railway to Witney « 1 2 »	Richard Fairhurst	16	9723	May 25, 2023, 12:16:42 pm by Richard Fairhurst
[otd] 17th May 1876 - first through Exeter - Plymouth train via Okehampton	grahame	0	550	May 17, 2023, 01:39:00 pm by grahame
Campaign to re-open Saltford station (between Bristol and Bath) « 1 2 3 »	Timmer	42	23486	March 10, 2023, 04:58:37 pm by grahame
Charfield reopening?	infoman	10	2504	March 07, 2023, 11:56:27 am by Red Squirrel
petition about visual impaired using train stations	infoman	0	316	March 05, 2023, 05:53:35 pm by infoman
Old tracks could see trains again, in Anglesey and south Wales	Chris from Nailsea	6	4947	February 24, 2023, 10:11:46 pm by froome
Radstock to Frome (and Westbury?) Railway news « 1 2 »	johnneyw	19	6955	February 10, 2023, 10:12:42 am by rogerpatenall
Six new stations between Cardiff and Severn Tunnel - proposal « 1 2 »	grahame	16	4503	February 02, 2023, 10:05:40 pm by Noggin

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