The first meeting of the 2019/20 season of Bath Railway Society, held in the Museum of Bath at Work, was the inaugural Presidential Address by Pete Waterman OBE DL; ex-railwayman, music entrepreneur, enthusiast and locomotive restorer.

During the meeting, the Society placed on loan to the museum a chair inscribed S&DJR, the initials of the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. The chair was originally given to the Society in 1966 by Harold Morris, the last Shedmaster of the Green Park Motive Power Depot and member of the Society.

Placing the chair with the museum will allow more to see this artefact, celebrating the contribution Bath Railway Society has made to the local railway scene and a tribute to the working railway men and women of the City. It will now be on display with other items of railway interest that are in the museum.

The flourishing Bath Railway Society is now in its 63rd year. Meetings are held on the first Thursday of the month (September to June) from 7 p.m. at St Mary’s Hall at the bottom of Bathwick Hill. New members and visitors are always welcome. ‘Policing of the Railways, Docks and Canals’ will be subject of the next meeting on Saturday, 5th October.

Rob Coles