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2009 Conference and AGM
Posted 15 June 2009 Updated 16 June 2009
Conference
The WRA held its second Conference on Saturday 13 June in Northallerton. There were three main presentations.
Ian Sesnan 
new Chairman of the WRplc
presented
"The Way Forward for the
Wensleydale Railway"
Click to view Ian's presentation
[PDF File 5Mb]
Tom Bridges, from Arup, gave a talk on the socio-economic study he is conducting for the Railway in regard to the benefits of the line extensions. The study is due to be fully completed in July and Tom gave an interim report on the findings.
[Tom's slide presentation will be available here as soon as possible]
David Walker gave a presentation with videos outlining the successful Signal Box project. A final summary of the project with pictures will appear in Relay 52.
[David's slide presentation will be available here as soon as possible]
AGM and EGM
The following were elected to the WRA Ltd Board : Ken Monkman (Chairman), Robert Whitehouse (Vice Chairman), David Haxby (General Secretary), John Mazzucchi (Treasurer), David Gibson, Peter Guy, Angus Maude, Amanda Pearson, John Thompson, Tim Williamson, Paul Warren.
Pictures and profiles of each Board member can be found in the "Meet the Management Team" section of the Support and Fundraising Page.
The motion to remove the "unwaged" category for new members was approved.
At the subsequent EGM there were several special resolutions for various changes to the Articles of Association. These were all passed with the exception of Resolution 6 regarding the Board selecting the Officers. This was defeated in the hall and the Board decided to take this matter back for further discussion.
Operation Dalesman 2008
Posted 23 October Updated 1 November 2008
At the end of August 2008 a World War 2 military re-enactment group recreated scenes that would have been common between 1939 and 1945. This covered all the locations along the Wensleydale Railway.
Carolyn Jackson was one of the re-enactors and has given permission for her account and photographs of the event to be used on this site.
Click to read the blog. Click to see the pictures.
Local resident Eric Shepherd has created an audio-visual presentation about Operations Dalesman which he has kindly made available for download via this website.
[WARNING - the file is EXTREMELY LARGE (63MB) and will take a considerable time to download even with a Broadband connection. Please consider any implications for your connection before proceeding]
Click to download audio visual presentation
[Note this link takes you to another screen to start the download]
Further background to this event can be found in Relay 49 and there are pictures of the event in Relay 50. A photo album with many more pictures from the event can be seen below.
The Operation Dalesman event will run again on 18-19 July 2009.
Operation Dalesman 2008 Photo Album
Updated 14 November 2008 - 99 images
Hover the cursor over the album to move up and down in order to see all pictures.
Click on a picture and then use the options on the Board to display pictures in full screen, timed slideshow or other formats.
Station Posters
Posted 23 October Updated 28 November 2008
Picture by Mike Sheehan
The London Branch initiated a project, led by Peter Williams, to salvage a quantity of notice board frames, refurbish them and then produce and publish information posters along the Railway.
With much hard work by many people (and some welcome sponsorship from National Express) this project is coming to fruition and the first set of posters have now been erected at Bedale Station (see picture below) and Leeming Bar (see picture above).
Suitable sites at other stations are being investigated. A full report on this project will appear in Relay 51.
Picture by Peter Williams