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Above: Two of our younger members taking a short break on a walk from Heathfield to Hailsham in East Sussex. 17 April 1999. (Richard Martin)
 
Above: One of the Southern Area's walks ended at the Swindon & Cricklade Railway, whose volunteers kindly provided a brake van trip for members over their line between Blunsdon and Hayes Knoll. 4 October 1998. (Richard Martin)
 
Above: Our power-mad former Chairman, now the club's Webmaster, grabs the controls. Taken at Blunsdon during a brake van trip to Hayes Knoll. 4 October 1998. (Richard Martin)
 
Above: This early tramway bridge near Nine Mile Point in the Sirhowy Valley once carried coal-laden wagons on the Penllwyn Tramway. Nowadays, it's part of a railway walk. September 1993. (David James)
 
Above: The Albion Inn at Verwood, Dorset, is scarcely recognisable as the village's former railway station, although the bridge behind the garden tables is a give-away. The road in the foreground, the B3081, used to go over the bridge until modern road improvements altered the scene. Verwood was situated on a minor line from Salisbury to West Moors, near Wimborne, and closed in May 1964. Photographed in May 1999. (Alan Clarke)
 
Above: Shillingstone station, situated between Sturminster Newton and Blandford Forum on the scenic Somerset & Dorset line, was a sad sight when our photographer visited in May 2000. The station was (and is) owned by Dorset County Council, but for many years was used as a store and machine shop for the adjoining industrial estate. Update: In November 2004, DCC granted 'right of access' to the Shillingstone Station Restoration and Museum Project, which is in the course of carrying out a wholesale restoration of the site and its surroundings. For further details, click here. (Richard Lewis)
 
Left: If the track looks a bit wobbly, that's because it is. The reason is that this line was in the process of being relaid when we walked it – it's the extension of the Kent & East Sussex Railway from Northiam to Bodiam, photographed in the vicinity of the short-lived Dixter Halt. This walk was organised by kind permission of the K&ESR and its contractors, and was a one-off chance to walk a line that, just a year before, had been an almost impenetrable tangle of vegetation. 26 June 1999. (Jeff Vinter)