Sunday 6th October – visit to Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust workshop at Butterley. ASTT held its 9th annual conference at the Aston Court Hotel in Derby over the weekend of 5th-6th October 2024. 25 attendees were present on the Saturday and 20 on the Sunday. A report on the conference, including PDF copies of […]
ASTT’s 2019 Conference was successfully held at the Head of Steam museum in Darlingon over the weekend of 15/16 October with 28 members in attendance. This was a significant increase on our 2021 Loughborough conference, but numbers were constrained by concerns about rail travel because of the recent propensity for strikes. Covid caused at least […]
For those who are unaware, ASTT’s 2019 Conference was a great success with 50 in attendance, most of whom can be seen in the above photo, lined up in front of Britannia in Crewe. 10 papers were presented, and an afternoon was spent visiting Locomotive Storage Ltd’s workshops in Crewe (where Britannia was on display). […]
Conference attendees visiting the premises of Locomotive Storage Ltd. ASTT held its annual conference in the Crewe Ibis Hotel over the weekend of 5th to 6th October 2019. With 50 attendees over the two days, attendance was significantly higher than in previous years, with five countries being represented: UK; USA; Holland; Spain and Latvia. There […]
ASTTs 2019 Conference will be held over the weekend of 5th-6th October. at the Ibis Styles Hotel in Crewe. It is expected to include nine presentations from an international cast of speakers representing the UK, USA and the Netherlands, plus a tour of Locomotive Storage Ltd’s workshops. Details of the conference and a booking form […]
ASTT’s 2019 AGM was held at the Crewe Heritage Centre on 2nd March and was very successful in that almost half the current membership attended, with some travelling from as far afield as Inverness in the north and Bournemouth in the south. Three visitors also attended. Those in attendance can be seen in the photo […]
Bookings are now open for ASTT’s Autumn Conference to be held in the Transport Museum meeting room at Bury over the weekend of 29th/30th September – see attached booking form. The programme includes eleven technical talks on a wide variety of steam-related subjects, a steam-hauled ride over the East Lanc Railway in a reserved “conference […]
Members are invited to attend ASTT’s AGM on 3rd March 2018. The meeting agenda is now available for download (please click on link). Non-members and guests are also welcome to attend, however they will not have voting rights and may be asked to contribute to the cost of refreshments (which will be free to members). […]
ASTT has been holding annual conferences since 2016. These are usually two-days affairs, held in a location that allows a visit to be made to a railway or a workshop of interest. Conferences are marketed under the banner of ASTT (the trust) but are run through Advanced Steam Traction Services Ltd (ASTS) which undertakes commercial […]
As reported on the News pages of this website, ASTT’s 2017 Autumn Conference was a great success. 35 people attended, of whom 23 were members. It is expected that some of the non-members who attended will take advantage of the free membership that has been offered to them on the basis that the £5 half […]