Railroad at Hatfield
For The Railroad Club’s Spring event this year, we had the pleasure of heading to Hatfield who’d kindly agreed to host us on their superb court.
At play on the Hatfield Court
A dozen or so Railroad Club members turned up for friendly doubles with everyone getting three or four sets with different partners.
The Railroad team
Once again there were a couple of members who hadn’t played in a number of years and were thrilled to get back on court. Two attendees live not far away from Hatfield and enquired about membership there so a win win all around!
After the tennis the players walked down the hill for a couple of drinks in the sunny beer garden of the Eight Bells Pub!
A thoroughly relaxed and enjoyable day.
Many thanks to Eve Shenkman who was such a great help with organisation and to Hatfield pro, Jon Dawes for making us so welcome.
Railroaders: relaxing in the Hatfield Dedans
Next events
And the next event … will be at Queens again in the Autumn and next Spring we plan to return to Oxford!
So … Save the Date!
Our next event is at Queens Club on 26th October.
Queens have kindly offered us their courts again for the day and we plan to organise social doubles as usual. But … maybe, just maybe, there might be a competition (a Railroad Club championship?) for the lower handicap players to run alongside the doubles. That will depend on who signs up.
Also following the success of last year’s Oxford tennis event and dinner at Vincent’s we plan to do something similar next May/June
Railroad Club Rackets
Once again the RRC have been providing half price rackets to students. The students really appreciate this. See two happy recipients below!
Francesca Dakin (Somerville) and Alex Williams (Christchurch) with their Railroad Club rackets
Your help please!
If you were able to offer any support it would be gratefully received. We really could do with a treasurer/membership secretary.
Input on development and fundraising would also be very welcome as well as help with the planning of events.
Please do get in touch if you think you might be able to help out in these or other areas at railroad@outc.org.uk
Onwards and Upwards for the Railroad Club!
Andrew Davis
Andrew in the Hatfield Dedans