GNSR Association News and Events.

News and Events.

Spring Meeting

Saturday 8th march 2008
Cairngorm Room, Station Hotel, Guild Street, Aberdeen.
10.45 - "A Buchan Miscellany"
12.30 Lunch
2.00pm "Reminiscence and Discussion Forum"
3.15pm Slide Show from Association Collection
4.15 close, but room still available for those who wish to chat or purchase Association material from the sales table etc.
(Form in latest journal - complete by March 1st!!)

2007 AGM

Barry Hoper has kindly agreed to take over the Sales job from Douglas, full details on the sales page. The association has a new Chairman and Vice Chairman, Keith Fenwick and John Ross. Keith Jones remains an ordinary member of the committee and will look after exhibitions and Review distribution.

GNSRA --DIGITAL ARCHIVE PROJECT FEB 2006

The intention to make a digital archive of the Association’s 35mm slide and negative collection was announced at the 2005 A.G.M.. This long term project has been widened to offer the same service to members who wish to donate their images for use by the association, e.g. in its own in house publications, here on the web site as well as independent publications such as railway magazines, with any fees shared equally. The pleasure and satisfaction gained by members sharing their pictures with fellow members as well as the wider world, should suffice in the main.

Each image (colour or black and white) will be scanned with a 35mm film scanner. Blemishes due to dust, scratches and colour casts will be removed as best one can and the resulting digital file burned onto a good quality CD or DVD. This process will be entirely free to association members, with whatever level of secure postage and packing (of your choice) paid for by the donor.

You have the added assurance that all of this work will be done by an association committee member .

Slides. etc.. will be scanned immediately on receipt and returned as soon as practicable – typically within 48 hours.   Cleaning a single image can take may hours so a batch may take several weeks before a CD can be made. Images can be saved in any format(s) you like e.g. jpeg’s, tiff’s and native psd.

There is a degree of urgency associated with this project as slides and negatives taken 40-50 years ago may have already started to show discolouration (casts) or worse.   A slide or negative already badly damaged by a fungal infection or whose emulsion is breaking down is regrettably no use and cannot be scanned.

Images of any subject from any time on former G.N.S.R. lines are welcome, though initially material up to the end of B.R. would be preferred.   It is better to be over inclusive and flexible too, so now is the time to dig out all those slides of the "Sojer" at Partick Central in sept.1959 etc., etc!

A maximum of 20 slides or negatives per batch would be a reasonable number to send initially with more thereafter if desired.

Forms to accompany submitted slides can be downloaded here.
(PDF file Acrobat reader required)

Modelling Inquiries

Modelling enquiries should be directed to John Ross, 68 Bailies Drive New Elgin Moray IV30 6JJ, who is happy to answer letter by post.