Membership
Join us now from £18.50 for membership lasting until the end of next year and receiving six magazines in total, starting with the autumn issue and receiving the winter issue, plus all four quarterly issues next year.
To help support the Trust’s conservation and restoration activities, why not join us?
If you wish to join us now, we offer you membership until the end of next year. Tim Deacon, our Membership Secretary, will welcome you with the autumn magazine and you’ll also receive the winter issue plus you’ll get all four quarterly issues next year.
When ordering membership, any other items you require from our online shop can be included at the same time; there is no need to order them separately.
Click here to purchase membership – or use the drop-down ‘Sales’ menu.
Membership benefits
All members receive a copy of our quarterly magazine, the latest edition of which is the autumn issue. There’s plenty of great reading material and photographic content, including:
– Capturing the S&D on the countdown to closure. Mike Beale recalls journeys on the S&D both just before and after the granting of the closure consent. Illustrated with his colour photos, Mike also describes how he made a special journey to the Highbridge branch, knowing that it would all soon be consigned to history.
– Re-creating the S&D in the Trainz simulator. Thomas Parker reports on his work to re-create well-known S&D locations – including Bath Green Park – in the digital world.
– Bath Green Park MPD Locomen’s Roster. Richard Gunning examines in detail the roster for the final week on the S&D.
– 1954 Somerset Central Special – further examination. With new information, John Palmer makes a further examination of how the special train marking the centenary of the Somerset Central was handled with reference to motive power and track & signalling.
– S&D stations – Burnham-on-Sea. In the 38th and last part of his stations series, David Grimwood looks at Burnham-on-Sea where the track originally continued down a slipway to meet with cargo vessels.
– S&D Locations. Catcott and Corfe Mullen as they are today, by Kevin Mitchell.
– Washford – over the years. Photos from the Trust’s near-50 years on the Washford station site.
– The dissolution of the S&D’s Head Office. An interesting photo from 1928 showing all the staff who worked at the S&D’s Head Office in Green Park before they were moved to various new locations.
– Feedback & Information Requests.
– Centre-spread photo. A G A Richardson photo taken at Shillingstone in 1962 which is remarkable in that the scene could in theory be re-created today; S&D 7F No. 53808 – subsequently restored by the Trust, Shillingstone Station – also restored and the signal box – authentically rebuilt.
– Trust and general S&D news.
– Four-page pull-out sales supplement.
48 A4 pages including the sales supplement.
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).