Existing Members may renew their subscriptions using the options below

For a quick renewal   – just follow this link to the Shop

Subscriptions run from January 1 and are normally for a year. Members pay a full subscription when they initially join the Society. Members joining after July 1 in any year pay a full subscription which lasts to the end of the following year.

Renewal Forms are sent out to members with the March Journal and contain the appropriate information. Click on the link to download a copy if you have mislaid yours.

This year, subscriptions are: Digital only (Worldwide) – £15; Standard Individual (UK) – £25; Standard Individual (Europe outside UK) – £39; Standard Individual (Outside UK and Europe) – £49; Standard Plus (UK only) – £37.

The joint and student categories of membership have been withdrawn, but existing members in those categories may continue to renew these at existing rates, although they might like to change to the new Digital only £15 membership rate..

The society also welcomes donations to support its activities. If you wish to make a donation, let us know whether it should go to the General, Publications or Research fund. Let the Membership Secretary know if you are making a donation; otherwise any sum above the annual subscription will be gratefully assigned to the General Donations.

If you do not already Gift Aid your subscription then please consider doing so. It is worth and extra 25% to the Society at no cost to you. Visit the Gift Aid page.

You can renew your membership in any of the following ways:

  1. Visit the Society’s on-line shop here – PayPal and Credit/Debit Card payments are available here.
  2. You can pay by Internet Banking using your Bank’s website after placing the order in the shop.
    Please remit to a/c 00017059 at 40-52-40. (CAF Bank Ltd, 25 Kings Hill Avenue, Kings Hill, West Malling, ME19 4JQ). Please use your surname and postcode as the reference.

  3. If you wish to pay by cheque, make it payable to ‘The Railway & Canal Historical Society’ or ‘R&CHS‘ and send it to the RCHS Membership Secretary, Walbottle Hall, Walbottle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE15 8JD, writing your name and postcode on the back.
  4. You can set up a direct debit by filling in the form here. Fill it in and post it to the Membership Secretary or scan the completed form and email it to the Membership Secretary