County Down Railway Museum
Membership
Membership
of the Trust is open to anyone with an interest in railways, and is available in
several different forms :-
ANNUAL
MEMBERSHIP -
Adult : £10:00 (UK and
Ireland)
£15:00(Worldwide)
Retirement or Child (Under 14) : £5:00.
Family : £20:00.
Annual
Memberships commence on the 1st January each year.
This type of membership, whether Adult; Child (Under 14); Retirement, or
Family, entitles the member to receive regular issues of the Trust's Newsletter "Down Line Telegraph", and one issue of the magazine "Down
Line" which is currently published once a year.
It also permits the Member to participate in work-parties for the
restoration of the line or rolling stock etc., and in other activities which are
arranged from time to time.
Members also receive information about special events, trips to U.K.
preserved railways, and discounts on purchases from the Trust's sales list.
Memberships
taken out after the end of June will be valid until the end of the following
year. i.e. Memberships taken out now will be valid until the end of
2009.
LIFE
MEMBERSHIP - £150:00.
FAMILY
LIFE - £175:00.
Life
Membership, or Family Life Membership, entitles the Member (and his or her
immediate family) to all the normal benefits of Annual Membership, but is not
renewable annually - It is literally for life!
EX.
B.& C.D.R. EMPLOYEES - Free.
It
is the Trust's policy that all former employees of the Belfast &
County Down Railway are given Honorary Life Membership on contacting the Trust.
We are always pleased to hear from former employees of the Company, and
would welcome hearing from any, or from the families of former staff, who have
not yet contacted us.
ASSOCIATE
LIFE MEMBERSHIP - £250:00.
We
invite you to join us as an "ASSOCIATE
LIFE MEMBER", in return for which you will receive the following
benefits and privileges :-
1)
A SPECIAL "ASSOCIATE
LIFE MEMBERSHIP" CERTIFICATE!
2)
A SPECIAL PASS PERMITTING FREE TRAVEL ON THE TRUST'S
TRAINS FOR LIFE WHEN WE ARE UP AND
RUNNING!
3)
A COPY OF OUR NEWSLETTER "DOWN
LINE TELEGRAPH EVERY THREE MONTHS (OR AS ISSUED) FOR LIFE!
4)
A COPY OF OUR MAGAZINE "DOWN
LINE" ONCE A YEAR
(OR AS ISSUED) FOR LIFE!
5)
YOUR NAME WILL BE LISTED ON A SPECIAL PLAQUE TO BE ERECTED
IN OUR MUSEUM BUILDING WHEN IT IS BUILT OR WHEN
A HOME FOR THE TRUST IS SECURED!
6)
PERMISSION TO TRAVEL ON THE FOOTPLATE OF THE TRUST'S LOCOMOTIVES AT
APPROPRIATE TIMES!
7)
A SPECIAL INVITATION TO THE FIRST DAY OF OPERATIONS ON THE LINE!
8)
A SPECIAL INVITATION TO THE
FIRST DAY OF STEAM OPERATIONS ON THE LINE!
9)
INVITATIONS TO SPECIAL EVENTS!
10)
UP TO 25% DISCOUNT ON PURCHASES FROM THE TRUST'S SHOP
OR SALES LIST!
11)
REGULAR MEMBERSHIP FACILITIES!
12)
ANY ADDITIONAL BENEFITS THAT THE COMMITTEE MAY INTRODUCE FROM TIME TO
TIME!
This
special "ASSOCIATE
LIFE MEMBERSHIP" will be for limited numbers only, as we could not
possibly afford to offer these benefits to everyone, so it is important that you
complete and return the form as quickly as possible in order to avoid
disappointment. In the event of
Associate Life Membership being oversubscribed your payment will be returned.
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'Down
Line Telegraph'
'Down
Line Telegraph' is the Trust's quarterly newsletter which is issued in
January, April, July, and October, and is a means of keeping members up to date
with developments and progress. We think the name is quite
appropriate as the 'Telegraph' was the means used by the railways to send
messages Down the Line. It also of course reflects the name of the
company.
On
joining the Trust each member receives a 'Membership Pack' which includes copies
of all the years issues to date, plus a copy of the current years issue of 'Down
Line'.
'Down
Line'
'Down
Line' is the magazine of the Belfast & County Down Railway Museum Trust,
and is issued FREE to all members.
It
is published once each year and includes articles relating to the B.& C.D.R., and
occasionally has articles relating to other Irish railway companies.
Many of the articles are prepared from the company's minute books which are in
the possession of the Trust, and often there are reminiscences by former staff,
although these are becoming few and far between.
There
are also regular up-dates regarding new acquisitions by the Trust, and the
magazine gives us an opportunity to publish some of the Trust's collection of
photographs.
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PROGRAMME
OF WINTER MEETINGS
In
recent years the Trust has held a series of Winter meetings in Ballynahinch
Library during the months September to March.
Unfortunately Ballynahinch Library has undergone a recent refurbishment
that has rendered the facilities that we used as no longer suitable for meetings
of this kind.
Following
the amalgamation of the various Library Boards into Libraries NI, the charges
now being levied for the use of such facilities at other libraries has ruled out
the possibility of using any of the other libraries as an alternative venue.
In the circumstances the winter meetings will now be transferred to the
Market House in Ballynahinch, and the dates for the forthcoming winter programme
will be as follows:-
2012
Thursday
16th February
Chairman Bob Pue will present a Power Point
presentation entitled
'The Last Days of the 'County Down
Railway'
following which there will be an up-date of the
progress that has been made on the
development of the Saintfield - Crossgar line,
and the Ballynahinch Branch, since the
last public meeting in November 2011.
Thursday
22nd March
21st and 22nd April
The Trust will again be represented at the North Down Model Exhibition to be
held
at Bangor Leisure Centre on the Saturday and Sunday.
Please come along and meet us.
In
the meantime we are in the process of finalising the rest of the programme of
meetings, and would ask any member who may like to do a presentation on one of
the evenings to please contact our chairman to discuss it with him.
He may be contacted on: 07951
403510,
or if you wish you may leave a message on the Trust’s Freephone number:- 0800
980 1242, and he will call you back.
Members will be updated on progress at each meeting, so we would like to see as
many coming along as possible, and
don't be afraid to bring a few friends as well. They will be made
most welcome.
Footnote
We had hoped
to be able to arrange for visitors to our web site to pay membership
subscriptions etc., on line, but we have found that any such method of payment
is so expensive to introduce that this has not yet been possible.
If you are
interested in Trust Membership, please click here to download a Membership
Form
or
e-mail us at info@bcdr.co.uk
to request a brochure.
All photographs
on this site are copyright, and are not to be copied for re-sale.
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