2025 AGM Notification

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Company Ribble Steam Railway Limited for the year ending 2025 will be held in the Museum at the Ribble Steam Railway on Monday 5^th October 2026 at 19.30 hours precisely for the following purposes:

 AGENDA

1. To receive any apologies for absence.
2. To approve the minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on the 30^th September 2025.
3. To receive the reports of the Board of Directors and the Auditors.
4. To receive and adopt the accounts for the Company for the year ended 31^st December 2025.
5. To re-appoint DJH Liverpool North (formerly Messrs Satterthwaite Brooks & Pomfret, Chartered Accountants) of Oriel House 2-8 Oriel Road, Bootle, Merseyside as independent assessors of the Company.
6. To elect directors. Article 52 of the Company Articles of Association provides that: “No person other than a director retiring at the meeting, shall, unless recommended by the Directors as eligible for election to the office of Director at any General Meeting unless, not less than three, nor more than twenty one days before the date appointed for the meeting, there shall have been left at the registered address of the Company, notice in writing signed by a member duly qualified to attend and vote at the meeting for which such notice is given, if his intention to propose such person for election and also notice in writing signed by that person of his willingness to be elected”. Messrs M. Burke, T. Owen & A. Pinch are retiring by rotation and being eligible offer themselves for re-election at the meeting. Mr D. Watkins passed away on the 10^th June 2026. Can I please emphasise that to be legally valid to be elected at the AGM to serve as a director any nomination MUST be sent to the registered address by the closing date the 2^nd October 2026.   
7. To transact any other business which may lawfully be transacted at an AGM.
8. Any member who is not a life member of Ribble Steam Railway Limited is respectfully reminded that in order to attend and vote, his or her membership must be up to date. Any member entitled to attend and vote may appoint a proxy to attend and attend on their behalf. A proxy need not be a member of the Company. To be valid a correctly completed form of proxy must be delivered to the registered office of the Company by Friday 2^nd October 2026.  
9. Following the amending of the Company Articles of Association held at the General Meeting held on the 30^th September 2025 the Company will facilitate a remote link to allow members to join the meeting from a remote location. That link will be provided to those members who notify the Company by e-mail to agm@ribblesteam.co.uk. Any person attending via remote link who wish to take part in a ballot must do so by serving of a proxy form no later than the 2^nd October 2026.

By Order of the Company Secretary

Michael Bailey

Registered Company Office:

Ribble Steam Railway

Chain Caul Road

Preston

PR2 2PD