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A regular and well informed progress report on maintenance matters from the DMU technical team. Our ‘Blue Square Blog’.

Our on train bar staff have updated their new ‘Taverner’s Blog’.

To read our ‘Taverner’s Blog’

Our ‘Members News’ web page has recent updates including a
further GroupEx Blog.

New members are always welcome. If you wish to join us

Our ‘Taverner’s Blog’ has been updated by the on-train bar team with two entries this week. Notwithstanding some good progress so far our appeal for additional help continues.

To read more go to our ‘Taverner’s Blog’

On Friday 28th May the DMU was used for a Friends of Bridgnorth Hospital charter, the Vice Chairman, Phil, being rostered as driver. The charter was a type of evening scenic land cruise but starting from the north end of the line at Bridgnorth. The train was well filled and allowed passengers an hour in Kidderminster for a fish and chip supper before returning to Bridgnorth,  Also refer to our Blue Square Blog and our Taverner’s Blog.

Web Manager request: Does anyone have any photographs of this charter?

Do remember to also visit our ‘Members News’ web page.

Our GroupEx blog has just been updated.

New members are always welcome. If you wish to join us

On Friday 11th June the DMU was used for an evening charter from Bridgnorth and running through to Kidderminster and return.

Some good news is that the DMU Blogs are proving far more popular than we could ever have imagined!
The not so good news is that we have temporarily exceeded our bandwidth quota.
Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible. Apologies from the Web Manager

The ‘Blogs’ continue to give bandwidth capacity problems and so the Web Manager has been taking behind the scenes action. All three ‘blogs’ are now able to be updated and are readable albeit  in a different guise. A longer term super fix is being considered and normal service will be resumed as soon as possible. Apologies from the Web Manager

The Evening Scenic Land Cruise takes a well earned rest for the next two Saturday's (26th June and 3rd July) whilst the SVR holds its ‘1940’s Weekend’ special event.

The Cruise  returns on Saturday 10th July.

For more information

In an attempt to overcome bandwidth limitation quotas mentioned last month the Web Manager (at great expense) has now upgraded the DMU web site to the latest version of software available. We are in the process of being able to return to the Blog format used previously - watch this space for further news. There should also be a number of additional benefits which can be rolled out over a period of time. Thanks to everyone for their patience !
(Web Manager).

The ‘Blue Square Blog’ has returned following earlier bandwidth capacity problems.  

The DMU ran a charter for the Bridgnorth branch of the RNLI on Friday. The well filled train ran from Bridgnorth to Kidderminster and return with everyone having an enjoyable evening..

Our Member’s News page has another article added.

To read more  

The Evening Scenic Land Cruise runs every Saturday for the next 8 weeks. New large advertisements for the service are appearing on poster boards.

Following last weekend’s big shunt, see our Blue Square Blog, the DMU train formation now comprises (from north to south) M56208; M53933; M51941; NE59250 and M52064.  

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The Group was pleased to receive some superb shots of the DMU in service during the 1960’s weekend, courtesy of Jed Bennett. We will feature these on the web site.

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