Notices
Martin Skrzetuszewski – Funeral arrangements
Martin (known on Bluebell as Scratchers) passed away early last month and his funeral will be held at the Croydon Crematorium Thornton Road, CR7 6BB on Monday 4th August at 3pm.
He was a volunteer for many years, was General Secretary of the Society for several years, a leading light in saving 34059, helped with the work at Kingscote station not long after we had purchased it and had a keen interest in wagons, starting the first iteration of the Wagon Group.
Gavin Bennett
General Secretary
Preservation Standards Manual
We are pleased to be able to publish the first edition of our Preservation Standards Manual, which details how everything on and about our Railway should be presented. This is a major undertaking, and there are some sections yet to be fully completed, and it will probably always remain a work in progress as new research is still uncovering refinements.
Documents for Members
- “Who’s Who” in the BRPS
- BRPS Objectives, Aims & Plans – 2021 edition (available as a pdf document), together with an explanatory note.
Revised (V 1.1) Articles of Association for the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society agreed at the 2022 AGM.- Diesel Developments – D6570 (pdf) – 29 June 2021
- Preservation Standards Manual – April 2020
- Accessibility Statement – March 2019 and updates
- Safeguarding Policy – August 2018
- Privacy Policy – May 2018 (updated 22 Feb 2021)
- Agreed preservation policies and strategies:
- Traction and Rolling Stock Collection Policy (as adopted in 2004)
Internal Combustion & Electric Traction Policy (pdf) – Issue 1 – 18 January 2024- Carriage and Wagon Restoration Policy (as adopted 2003)
- Van Strategy (as adopted October 2015)
- Historic Wagon Strategy (as adopted May 2008)
- Bluebell Railway Trust – Governance and Management Regulations – March 2018
- Carriage Strategy Review (February 2015)
- Options for a turntable or a triangle – October 2011.
- The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the MBE for volunteer groups – June 2010
Social Sub-Committee
- BRPS Social Sub-Committee – with who’s who, and recent and forthcoming events.
List of Notices
- BRPS AGM Notices 2025 and Members’ Day events and evening train – 31 May 2025.
- BRPS AGM Notices 2024 and Members’ Day events and Social evening – 31 May 2024.
- Paul Churchman’s resignation as Chairman – 14 March 2024.
- Chairman’s Weekly Updates – Feb 2023 to Jan 2024.
- BRPS AGM Notices 2023 – 20 May 2023.
- Notes from the Volunteer Forum (pdf) – 18 March 2023.
- Changes to the Bluebell Railway plc board – 26 January 2023, and statement from Geoff Mee – 27 January 2023.
- BRPS Objectives, Aims & Plans – 2021 edition (available as a pdf document), together with an explanatory note.
- Revised (V 1.1) Articles of Association for the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society agreed at the 2022 AGM.
- BRPS AGM – 28 May 2022 – AGM Document 2022 (including AGM arrangements, Agenda, Election nominations, Minutes of October 2021 meetings, long service awards, in memoriam, and various reports), Trust & Society Combined Report & Accounts 2021, Proxy Voting Form – May 2022.
- AGM Notice and Job roles (zip file) – March 2022.
- BRPS Certificate of Incorporation and Articles of Association (the latter as agreed in EGM, October 2021, and now superseded). These came into force with the change from an unincorporated association to a Company Limited by Guarantee on 1 January 2022.
