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The Worcester Locomotive Society Limited is a Private company (Company number 01188105) limited by guarantee without share capital, incorporated on 22 October 1974. It incorporates the Worcester Locomotive Society, founded 1960. It offers membership, runs frequent members' meetings in Hereford and Worcester and regular organised trips to sites of railway interest.
 
The Worcester Locomotive Society Limited is a Private company (Company number 01188105) limited by guarantee without share capital, incorporated on 22 October 1974. It incorporates the Worcester Locomotive Society, founded 1960. It offers membership, runs frequent members' meetings in Hereford and Worcester and regular organised trips to sites of railway interest.
  
From 1960-67 it advertised in the WLS house Magazine "The Big Four", and partook in. organised shed trips.<ref>[http://www.miac.org.uk/lists.html Malvern Industrial Archeology Circle]</ref>
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From 1960-67 it advertised in the WLS house Magazine "The Big Four", and partook in, organised shed trips.<ref>[http://www.miac.org.uk/lists.html Malvern Industrial Archeology Circle]</ref>
  
 
It owns and operates [[Kitson & Co 5474 'Carnarvon']] and [[GWR Pannier 5786]], resident on the SVR between 1969 and 1970, and several items of historic railway rolling stock. The Society moved their locomotives to the Bulmers Railway Centre at Hereford and, when the Centre closed, they later found a new home at the South Devon Railway.  
 
It owns and operates [[Kitson & Co 5474 'Carnarvon']] and [[GWR Pannier 5786]], resident on the SVR between 1969 and 1970, and several items of historic railway rolling stock. The Society moved their locomotives to the Bulmers Railway Centre at Hereford and, when the Centre closed, they later found a new home at the South Devon Railway.  
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==Links==
 
==Links==
 
[http://www.shelbrooke.co.uk/wls/index.htm Society weebsite]<br>
 
[http://www.shelbrooke.co.uk/wls/index.htm Society weebsite]<br>
[http://www.southdevonrailway.co.uk/locomotives/ SDR web site]
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[http://www.southdevonrailway.co.uk/locomotives/ SDR web site]<br>
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[http://www.michaelclemensrailways.co.uk/article/worcester-locomotive-society-shed-tours/670 Michael Clemens' Railways, Worcester Locomotive Society Shed Tours - 1967]</ref>

Revision as of 14:42, 23 September 2018

The Worcester Locomotive Society Limited is a Private company (Company number 01188105) limited by guarantee without share capital, incorporated on 22 October 1974. It incorporates the Worcester Locomotive Society, founded 1960. It offers membership, runs frequent members' meetings in Hereford and Worcester and regular organised trips to sites of railway interest.

From 1960-67 it advertised in the WLS house Magazine "The Big Four", and partook in, organised shed trips.[1]

It owns and operates Kitson & Co 5474 'Carnarvon' and GWR Pannier 5786, resident on the SVRSevern Valley Railway between 1969 and 1970, and several items of historic railway rolling stock. The Society moved their locomotives to the Bulmers Railway Centre at Hereford and, when the Centre closed, they later found a new home at the South Devon Railway.

See also

Former Residents
Preservation groups formerly associated with the SVR

References

  1. Malvern Industrial Archeology Circle

Links

Society weebsite
SDR web site
Michael Clemens' Railways, Worcester Locomotive Society Shed Tours - 1967</ref>