Archive news

Remembering a unique railway - the Weston Clevedon & Portishead.

We are the only group dedicated solely to this railway.

We ran two very successful guided mini-bus tours of the Route of the WC&PR on 25 July and 16 August 2009.

We held our 2nd AGM on 20 Nov 2008. Our membership reached 90 for the first time.
We had a stand at the “Archaeology in the Park” event at Weston-super-Mare on 13 July 2008. We were pleased to be invited to attend, and we emphasised the industrial archaeology aspects e.g. our route survey. We made some more useful contacts.
To mark the 110th Anniversary on 1 Dec 2007, members met at the site of the Weston-super-Mare Ashcombe Road station.
We had our first AGM on 22 November 2007 with a guest speaker.
On 10 November 2007, 12 members visited the River Yeo bridge and wharf which is on private land, by arrangement with the farmer, as part of our route survey.
We have been contacted by a number of people to tell us of their memories of the railway, for which we are very grateful.
We featured in the Bristol Evening Post on Sat 4 Aug 07 as a double page centre spread article, and also on page 2 of the Clevedon Mercury on Thurs 2 Aug.
We have started doing audio recordings of people’s memories of the railway.

We are doing a comprehensive physical survey of the route.
We had our first public event with a stand at the Trams, Trains, Buses, Models and Memorabilia exhibition at Weston-super-Mare on Sat 21 April 07.
The inaugural meeting of the Group was held on 30 November 2006 in Clevedon.

The Group’s past attendance at shows and exhibitions is listed on the Shows Archive page.

For a list of speakers and talks at past Group meetings see Previous Talks page.