Membership
Join us now from £17 to be welcomed with the spring 2025 magazine and to receive the other three quarterly issues due out this year.
To help support the Trust’s conservation and restoration activities, why not join us? Tim Deacon, our Membership Secretary, will be pleased to welcome you.
Membership benefits
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:
– Pilot engine working at Templecombe (part 2). Stemming from the 1950 rule book statement that ‘no engine must propel a train upon any running line, but must draw it…’, an extra engine had to be provided to make the stop at Templecombe with the result that the journey time for the five-mile journey between Henstridge and Wincanton was typically 40 minutes.
In this part, Bob Curtis looks at the signalling at each end of the spur line and describes in detail the complex interactions required to handle all of the traffic.
– The Templecombe ‘Spur’ Line in detail. A variety of photos in connection with the lead article.
– Re-creating the S&D in the Trainz simulator. Blandford Forum comes steadily back to (digital) life, courtesy of Thomas Parker.
– Recalling the S&D trackbed in the 1980s – part 2 . A Trust member who was brought up in Bath looks back to the 1980s with a selection of colour photos taken between Combe Down Tunnel and Binegar.
– S&D Locations. The site of the A350 road bridge south east of Blandford, next to the River Stour.
– Feedback & Information Requests.
– Centre-spread photo. In connection with the pilot engine article, the photo is one from the last day of the S&D, 6 March 1966, showing 48706 and 80043 at Templecombe Upper on the SLS last-day special service.
– Trust and general S&D news. Including the latest work on the overhaul of our S&D 7F No. 53808.
– Four-page pull-out sales supplement.
44 A4 pages including the sales supplement.
Click here for the membership sales page – or use the drop-down ‘Sales’ menu.
Benefits include:
– Our magazine, Pines Express, four times a year. A wide variety of articles is complemented by photographs from the Trust’s extensive archive.
– Access to PDF copies of every Bulletin/Pines Express ever published.
– Participation in events and restoration work (see the volunteering page).
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