Society AGM 17th May 2025 – Elections

Dear All, The following people have so far been confirmed as standing for election at the 2025 AGM (2PM on 17th May).   Peter Miller has been nominated for re-election as President by Chris Jackson & Bob Newton, to hold office for three years. Nick Talbot has been nominated for…

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AGM 2025 – Saturday 17th May

Dear All, I’m just bumping this notice up a bit as the AGM is fast approaching. It’s on 17th May. But even sooner is the deadline for applications to join the Committee – that’s midnight on 3rd May. We have several vacancies for regular Committee Members and it is also…

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AGM 2025 – An Agendum Item

The 2025 AGM will take place on Saturday 17th May. As usual, there will be special trains for those people visiting in person, but it will also, again as usual, be possible for members to participate in the Meeting itself via Zoom. Proposed Item to be included in the 2025…

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AGM 18th May 2024

The AGM took place as planned: members present at Llanuwchllyn were able to enjoy a buffet lunch and an evening ‘mixed’ train with Winifred taking the Penrhyn Quarrymen’s Coaches and slate wagons to Llangower for an ‘interesting’ reversal. The full draft minutes are available from the Secretary (email to secretary@bala-lake-railway.co.uk)…

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AGM Highlights 2023

For the results of the elections, please see the separate post. The full draft Minutes will be available shortly but you will have to log in to see them. To summarise: Combining those present with those attending online, we did have a quorum (21 members present, the minimum needed being…

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Elections at the 2023 AGM (20th May)

Elections at the 2023 AGM (20th May)   All the candidates standing were elected. As the Meeting had already voted to move to three-year terms of office, the candidates were elected for varying lengths of time, so as to set up three groups which will henceforth be elected in rotation….

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2021 AGM – General Manager’s Report

Despite the effects and uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the railway has made considerable progress over the last 12 months. We were grateful for the financial support given to us by the Welsh Government over the last winter, which allowed us to keep all the permanent staff fully employed…

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2021 AGM – BLRS Chairman’s report

Dear Members,   In September 2020 we held our first virtual AGM, due to Covid 19 restrictions. The winter following that AGM saw a return to greater Covid restrictions across the UK, which again declared the railway out-of-bounds for most of our volunteers, with only the most local being able to…

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