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Newsletter — January 2025

Hello? Ahoy! 

Hope you all have had a good winter break and welcome to the (slightly more chaotic than usual) January 2025 edition of the Railsoc newsletter! In this edition! 

  • BIG TRIP! BIG TRIP! BIG TRIP! 
  • Railsoc goes to Falkirk 
  • We acquired some trains! 

Full steam ahead!  

BIG TRIP! BIG TRIP! BIG TRIP! 

I’m very pleased to announce that our wonderful treasurer Sam has managed to get Railsoc a Students Opportunities Development Fund grant from EUSA to put towards a big Railsoc trip! The trip will probably be a weekend in March and a bit further afield than our usual ones, so beware that you will have to be in Waverley earlier >:)

Unfortunately, since Big EUSA hasn’t given us a blank cheque, we will have to limit subsidised places - this probably coming in the form of a ticketed sale on our EUSA page. You will pay in the usual £20 and we will cover the rest of the ticket with priority being with our members at the University of Edinburgh. But fear not! If you’re reading this it probably means that you are one of our esteemed members :)

And the destination, you ask? Well that’s also up to you! We have narrowed it down to 6 possible destinations:

  • Highland main line and Inverness
  • Cumbrian coast line
  • Settle to Carlisle line
  • Kendal and Windermere
  • Penrith and Keswick

But the choice is yours, dear members! The link to vote will be at the bottom of this newsletter :)

And keep an eye on your inbox folks ! We will let you know when we put the subsidised places on sale.

Railsoc goes to Falkirk

For the trip this month we will be heading to Falkirk on Sunday the 26th. Falkirk is a nice town approx 45 mins NW of Edinburgh and we will be visiting:

We hope to see you on the first Railsoc trip of 2025. More details (and Jamie graphics!) to come on Instagram and Discord soon.

Railsoc model railway

Unfortunately, our efforts to get Big EUSA to acquire ex-LNER class 43 powercar 43006 have presumably failed. However, here is society secretary Liam Francis Astill to share some good news about some trains we did get:

Hello all, Mr. Liam the Secretary here to announce that I am now in possession of 00 Scale model electric trains and track! I'm keen to try and create regular modelling sessions and construct a communal model railway with our members. If you are interested in attending some or all of these potential sessions (dates/times tbd), please tick the box in the google form (same one as the trip ranking).

If yes, I'd also like to know in the form if you would want to contribute modelling supplies or donate some coins, since unfortunately it's not cheap. As a group though it should turn out very affordable, especially with university supplies like free 3D printing, and at the end of it who knows? Maybe we will be displaying it at Model Rail Scotland! 

Yours, Liam.

And that’s all from us, this train terminates here! Thanks for reading, and we’re always open to suggestions or something to put in the newsletter - just message us on Instagram or Discord.

Voting form for BIG TRIP! (Uni of Edinburgh login required) : https://forms.office.com/e/W1BA5cLSxg

Get (FREE!) Railsoc membership here: https://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/activities/view/railwaysoc

Railsoc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/railsocedi/

Railsoc Discord (UoE students): https://discord.gg/e2g9KCbgy5