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	<title>Aln Valley Railway</title>
	<link>http://avrs.co.uk</link>
	<description>linking coast to the castle</description>
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		<title>Thursday 25th September - Change to indoor meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHANGE TO ADVERTISED PROGRAMME: first indoor meeting.
 
Please note that the advertised speaker, Professor Alan Earnshaw, is not sufficiently well to be able to come to speak to us at our meeting on Thursday.
 
Instead Gordon Hall will give a slide presentation entitled &#8220;So far, so good&#8221; and Roger Jermy will give a slide presentation entitled &#8220;Roland [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://avrs.co.uk/2008/09/22/thursday-25th-september-change-to-indoor-meeting/</link>
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		<title>Preservation groups trust the Aln Valley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Two national preservation organisations have decided that the Aln Valley Railway is to be their base.
The On Track Plant Preservation Group which owns various Matissa and Permaquip vehicles has already moved most of them to the Aln Valley. The second group, the UK Alco Group which owns the 1949 built American Locomotive Company, S1 switcher [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://avrs.co.uk/2008/08/08/preservation-groups-put-their-trust-in-the-avr/</link>
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		<title>The Link Spring 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Link Spring 2008
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		<link>http://avrs.co.uk/2008/08/07/180/</link>
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		<title>The Ashington Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, 7th June 2008 saw South East Northumberland Rail Users Group (SENRUG) charter a promotional train tour from Morpeth. Passengers on each of the 3 pre-booked trips were taken in a Northern Rail 2 car unit from Morpeth to Newcastle Central then on to the Blyth &#38; Tyne route to the former Ashington Station. Passengers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://avrs.co.uk/2008/06/10/the-ashington-future/</link>
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		<title>Working Party Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Baz, Dave &#38; Ian stacked some more sleepers, and tidied up a bit. Kay continued with beautification of the 165 DE. After a tea break the second Geismar-Stumec rail saw was given a quick check over, with the starter cord being removed and retensioned, A mix of WD40 and diesel was squirted into the cylinder [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://avrs.co.uk/2008/05/31/working-party-report-11/</link>
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		<title>Working Party Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[another good day: site tidy-up continued with Ian using his New Holland levelling out the fines to give a better working surface and hopefully assisting drainage so parts of the site don’t become a quagmire at the first hint of rain. Sleepers stacked. The remainder of the new tools given a quick check over and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://avrs.co.uk/2008/05/26/working-party-report-6/</link>
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		<title>RCTS Summer Outing - 29th June 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AVRS Members are invited to take part in the RCTS Summer Outing on Sunday 29th June.
Itinerary attached.
Let Roger Jermy know (01665 606168) if you would like to take part.
He can fit three into his car if you&#8217;d like a lift from Alnwick or nearby.
Times are approximate!

RCTS NORTH EAST BRANCH VISIT TO CENTRAL NORTHUMBERLAND: 
Itinerary:

Meet at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://avrs.co.uk/2008/05/23/rcts-summer-outing/</link>
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		<title>Working Party Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some new tools were delivered. The wooden sleepers from the latest stack to be dismantled were stockpiled. Some F27s were moved to be more accessible – it was after this that this went downhill – literally…

The Atlas hit a patch of loose ground on a slope and due to the slew lock on the arm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://avrs.co.uk/2008/05/18/working-party-report-7/</link>
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		<title>Working Party Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Baz was up and had used the Atlas to grade off the South end of the site. Temporary fencing has been erected along the original fence line; this is to help appease safety fears and will be taken down again when a method of recovering the remaining concrete sleepers is agreed with Network Rail. Various [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://avrs.co.uk/2008/05/06/working-party-report-8/</link>
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		<title>Working Party Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attended by MH, AH, KSW, DT, TS and KM. KSW worked on the flooring of the coach. MH, AH started looking at the OTP. Assumed KM continued to work on his van. Some strange Western thingy trundled past northbound packed full also.

I couldn’t make it for various reasons so you lucky people have had a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://avrs.co.uk/2008/05/03/working-party-report-9/</link>
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