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    Alsager Railway Association

    Sep 08, 2022 3 minutes

    BRM: Tell us about the history of the club…

    John: The Alsager Railway Association (ARA) was founded in 1979. The town of Alsager is located between Stoke-on-Trent and Crewe and draws its membership mainly from north Staffordshire and southern Cheshire.

    In 2019, to celebrate the ARA’s 40th anniversary, Mike Sant (current Vice Chairman) posted a history of the club, which includes photographs from those early days, including the origins of the present premises – an RAF hut dismantled and transported from its location in Wolverhampton to Alsager in 1984. There have

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