All Aboard—December
All Aboard—December

All Aboard—December

The Milang Historic Railway Museum cafeteria is supposed to be open for inexpensive, quickly prepared, simple café food only on Sundays.  However, often the team of selfless volunteers accepts a booking from a special group on other days. For example, last October the BSA Owners Club of SA visited the Museum for a train ride, a museum tour and morning Devonshire Tea which included delicious jam and whipped cream filled scones. The cafeteria volunteers were extremely busy as the motorcyclists and their pillion passengers numbered ninety five individuals who fortunately did not all arrive at the same time!

The large group of mostly veteran original and restored BSA motorcycles attracted the attention of visiting bowlers from Clarendon who were about to compete across the road from the café. The riders were participating in their Club’s 2024 Annual Rally.
BSA motorcycles were first manufactured in the UK in 1903 and were absorbed into a different company Norton-Villiers-Triumph in 1972. Production of BSA motorcycles ceased in 1973. The good news for these BSA enthusiasts is that in 2016 a new company acquired the rights to BSA, and in 2024, launched a new model which retained the much-admired classic features of the original 1938 model Gold Star but a much stronger more modern version.
(Source: Whatever Happened To BSA Motorcycles? (slashgear.com))

The museum also accepts bookings from senior citizen groups from retirement villages, clubs and council run organisations. Most of them come for a two course, home cooked lunch which costs twenty dollars a head for up to fifty people.
 

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