Items for sales on the CFPS Ebay website

A few items are now for sale on the CFPS Ebay website.

Have a look here

or go to Ebay and search for ‘class40preservationsociety’

Old Whistlers.

The following Whistler mag back issues are in stock, ALL A5 size.

7, 8,

10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,

20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29,

31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39,

40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49,

50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59,

ALL of THE ABOVE issues up to and including number 59 are £1.00 each.

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60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69,

70, 71, 72, 74, 75, 76,

88, 89,

90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99,

ALL of issue numbers 60 to 99 are £ 2.00 each.

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101, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110.

ALL of ISSUE numbers 101 to 110 are £ 3.00 each

EXCEPT issue number 100 which is a SPECIAL CENTENARY EDITION.

It was produced in A4 size and contained a photograph of each one of the 200 class members.

That book is priced at £12.50 but we sell that at events at £10.00 special offer and will do so now if anyone wants to purchase a copy.

Thats all of the old stuff, except for having a few of the old small cardboard rail tour tickets.

Hope some or all of that lot is of some interest to someone

cheers

John Stephens

Historical CFPS info

Later than intended but a few months back, I visited “Butterworth Towers” and collected 8 cartons of old CFPS publications.

I have now been through the cartons and sorted them all out into seperate items.

There are small amounts of each item and they are in good condition.

The list of the items are as follows :-

A5 size, 4 page cover with 16 inner pages titled “FORTIES in 1981″

( A guide to passenger trains booked for a class 40 in 1981 )

A5 size, 4 page cover with 16 inner pages titled “WHISTLERS over AIS GILL”

( a listing of class 40s numbers that worked passenger trains on the S and C in the period late 78 to Sep 79.

A4 size 14 pages stapled together titled “MIDLAND FORTIES”

( a listing of class 40s sighted mainly in the Midlands and some details of headcodes of parcels traffic workings. )

Also included are the following RAILTOUR ITINERYS and TIMING Sheets. ALL these are A4 size stapled at the head, not booklet form

17/04/82. The Fenman. 16 pages.

04/09/82. The North Countryman. 16 pages.

18/09/82. The Christmas Cracker. 14 pages.

05/03/83. The Silver Jubilee. 18 pages.

24/07/83. The Broadsman. 20 pages.

10/09/83. The Ayrshire Ranger 22 pages.

17/12/83. The Christmas Cracker 2. 22 pages.

10/03/84. The North Briton. 20 pages.

22/07/84. The Cambrian Coast Express 26 pages.

22/09/84. The Conwy-Forth Express 18 pages.

15/12/84. The Christmas Cracker 3. 22 pages.

All are in very good condition .

If anyone wishes to obtain copies of any of the above, the cost will be £1 for each title. Please add an extra quid to cover cost of packing and for postage.

Needless to say, the proceeds received will go towards the costs of repairing 335. Plans for the repair of the loco are now being prepared.

Also in the cartons were back issues of the early Whistler Magazines.

Im close to sorting all of these out and a complete list of whats available in back issues of the Whistler Magazines will be issued in the next couple of days.

cheers for now.

John

Thank you!

During the weekend of October 17th and 18th, The ELR held their Autumn Diesel Gala.

On the Sunday of the same weekend, The Draw for the CFPS Annual Raffle took place on Bury Bolton Street Station in front of 40145 when it paused for a station stop.

Several tickets needed folding prior to the draw taking place and help with this thankless task was provided by:-

Karl Crowther, Bernie McDonough, Nigel Bryers, David Flood,

Andy Sparks, Eric Davies, Rob Peters and new CFPS life member David Loughhead.

Thank you to each of you chaps for your most welcome assistance with this finger numbing task.

The CFPS had a Sales Stand on the platform at Bury for both days of the Diesel Gala.

On the Saturday,

Mark Hornby and Dave Wood put in a full days stint helping me out.

Steve Jones and Rob Peters also helped out for a fair chunk of the day.

On Sunday,

Rob Peters, Karl Crowther, Eric Davies and Steve Jones returned to assist again and brave the cold.

Grant Marks and David Loughhead gave up there Sunday afternoon to give their assistance,which was particularly welcome when it came to packing up, as the temperature was dropping quickly at that point.

Needless to say Andy Walton was beavering away as ever over the weekend. He shared his time between Secondman duties for the ELR, helping us with Sales and also storming down the trains selling raffle tickets.

A super effort as always from Andy but THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HELPED DURING THE COURSE OF THE WEEKEND.

It is appreciated and it is needed as we try hard to obtain funds for the Society and awareness of our objectives.

Regards

John Stephens

New membership rates for 2010

As of the 1st January 2010 the membership rates for the society will increase, the rates will be as follows:

1 year Adult = £25

1 year Junior = £15

3 year Adult = £70

5 year Adult = £115

Life membership (under 30 years old) = £450

Life Membership (over 30 years old) = £400

The 10 year membership has been abolished.

Any members who’s membership is due for renewal between January and March 2010 can renew at the old rates providing I receive their application before 1st January 2010.

Regards

Steve Jones,

Membership Secretary,

CFPS Annual Draw Raffle……Year 2009 WINNERS and PRIZES.

The full list of the winners in the CFPS 2009 Annual Raffle Draw held at The ELR on Sunday 18/10/09 are as follows.

LISTING PRIZE WINNERS NAME WINNING TICKET NO.

FIRST PRIZE £200. JASON ORR 29678

2nd Replica Class 40 nameplate, ANDY TOOTELL 10845

“Empress of Canada.” (member 2442)

3rd £100. GRAHAM BETTS 29549

4th BACHMANN model of 40145 PAUL MYATT 07035

5th £ 60. MICHAEL SHAW 06897

6th Railway DVDs..SELECT JOHN ELLAMS 11929

3 from 6 Options. (member 40028)

7th £ 40. P. BAYNES 14373

8th Railway DVDs..SELECT D.BYSTOW 00899

2 from 4 Options.

9th £ 30. M.DEVANEY 09549

10th FLEECE with “ELR” Logo. P.HEBSON 00737

11th £ 20. K.ELLIS 06192

12th RAILWAY BOOK. titled ASHLEY SERVICE 07744

“British Rail Northern Scenes”

13th Railway DVD..SELECT ANDY PULLAR 19976

1 from 2 Options. (member 40065)

14th Railway BOOKS Twinset P.ROBERTS 00307

“50 Years of Class 40s” 1+2

15th £ 15. H.LOANE 01695

16th Railway BOOK, titled KELLY SIMONS 00601

“NORTH WALES COAST DIESELS”

17th POLO SHIRT with “EE”logo. JOHN NAYLOR 21662

( Black or Green ) (member 1520)

18th Railway BOOK, titled NEIL HARRIS 25513

“WESTERN MEMORIES” Class 52s (member 40106)

19th BASEBALL CAP with “EE” logo. RICHARD GRAY 01268

20th £ 10. JANE GREEN 29295

Efforts have already been made to notify the prizewinners.

Direct contact has been made with most.Phone and text messages have been left with those who were unable to answer the phone.

I have stated the reason for my call and have given my details and now await a return call to make the appropriate arrangements for distribution of their prizes.

All prizes will be sent within the next few days.

Please note,Being MINDFUL of security/fraud issues,all the non winning tickets that had names and contact numbers etc on them were burnt within an hour of the draw taking place.

cheers

John Stephens

CFPS Annual Draw

For those people with outstanding raffle tickets STILL to send in.

The CFPS will be having a sales stand on Bury Bolton Street platform this weekend on both days of The East Lancs Gala.

The stragglers can hand their tickets into us at the stand but preferably on the Saturday only and we will endeavour to get them all folded and included in the draw

which will take place at the Gala this coming SUNDAY, the 18th.

Given that it is planned for 40145 to be in action on the line from 11.50 hrs up until 16.48 hrs on the Sunday, we will aim to draw the winning tickets around 14.15 hours.

At that time, 40145 is scheduled to be hauling the 13.55 HEYWOOD to RAWTENSTALL service and therefore should be in Bury Bolton Street Station between

14.08 and 14.30 hrs.

We will aim to do the draw by the loco 40145.

The full list of the winning prizes is as follows.

FIRST PRIZE £200.

2nd Replica Class 40 nameplate, “Empress of Canada.”

3rd £100.

4th BACHMANN model of 40145.

5th £ 60.

6th Railway DVDs.. SELECT 3 from 6 Options.

7th £ 40.

8th Railway DVDs… SELECT 2 from 4 Options.

9th £ 30.

10th FLEECE with “ELR” Logo.

11th £ 20.

12th BOOK titled “British Rail Northern Scenes COAST to COAST.”

13th Railway DVD… SELECT 1 from 2 Options.

14th BOOKS Twinset “50 Years of Class 40s” Volume 1 the 1960s + Volume 2 the 1970s.

15th £ 15.

16th BOOK titled “NORTH WALES COAST DIESELS.”

17th POLO SHIRT with “EE” logo.( Black or Green ).

18th BOOK titled “WESTERN MEMORIES” re Class 52 Diesel Hydraulics.

19th BASEBALL CAP with “EE” logo.

20th £ 10.

cheers

John Stephens

Refunds and Raffles tickets (Update)

Hi Everyone.

As promised, an update on cheques and counterfoils.received SINCE the last message issued on Friday evening.

From Saturday morning 10/10 to Wednesday morning 14/10, envelopes have arrived from Messrs ;-

Stewart, Ellis, Calderley, Laing, Chandler, Tootell, Marland and Seed.

An emotional plea for HELP !

Over the last 10 days, I have received 3 cards at seperate times through the letter box from Royal Mail to say letters with insufficient postage on them are waiting my

collection at the post office ( which is 3 miles away ) and that upon payment of £1.08, for each one, I can take them away with me !

Pleeeeze, pretty please, do check that sufficient postage value is put on your envelopes and also consider that ;-

Its a ten minute walk, ( in my case, LIMP ! ) from my home to Bowker Vale Metrolink Station to get the tram to Prestwich and then a ten minute walk from the station

to the post office. Its then of course, the same time for the journey back home.

In addition, its a fare of £ 2.20 per journey on the tram and as some will know, I come out in a rash if I have to purchase a ticket !

It has therefore cost me £3.28 for each visit and also an hour of my life for each visit to collect the post.

Each time I went, I wasn’t aware that another underpayment was lurking in the system and about to bite me on the backside !

I felt duty bound to call and collect the envelopes so as to be fair to the people who have bought the tickets.

This is not a rant, just a friendly, polite and light hearted request to cough up the right amount of postage when sending stuff to the CFPS !

Cheers Folks.

John

Refunds and Raffle tickets

Hi Folks.

Some of the cheques that we sent out to members as refund payments relating to the cancelled Pathfinder Tour scheduled for October 3rd have not yet been

presented for payment at our bank.

If its just a case that members haven’t yet banked the cheques that’s fine but I’m just concerned IN CASE some refunds may have been delayed in the post.

If there is anyone who was expecting a CHEQUE refund that hasn’t yet received received it, will you please let me know and I will check to see that you were at least

on our refunds list !

This message only applies to those who booked and paid by cheque.

If you booked and paid by credit card, we will have refunded you by the same method.

If you didn’t book for the tour at all, you wont be getting a cheque or a credit on your card account !!

Credit Card payments were processed at the same time as the cheques so please refer to your credit card statement or check with your respective card issuer to

ensure that your dosh has been credited back to you.

From our viewpoint ALL refunds were processed on Monday September 28th and none are awaiting processing.

Moving onto the ANNUAL RAFFLE.

An update.

In the last 48 hours, Counterfoils and payments have been received from the following :-

Messrs HARRIS, DOYLE , DAVIS, DONOHOE, ELLAMS, DOCKRAY, WEST, BRISCALL, MOSS, HOOD, PULLAR, STEWART and P.A. SMITH.

I will give you another update on Tuesday and another next Friday so as to give you piece of mind if your bulging envelope has been received.

cheers

John Stephens

October Diesel Gala Details released

Details of the East Lancashire Railway Diesel gala next weekend, 17th/18th October are now available here

40145 will be out both days. See the timetable for details.

The timetable is subject to alteration and any changes will, hopefully be uploaded to the CFPS Website.