CRSC : Clyde River Steamer Club All tickets please

Since January 2018, CRSC Honorary Secretary Eric Schofield has delighted readers of this website with recollections of the sailings he has made over the past half century and more — a treasury of memories inspired by the tickets he bought and the photographs he took.

Few enthusiasts can claim to have preserved their sailing records so assiduously or to have built such a rich variety of sea-going experiences on Scotland’s west coast and beyond.

In its own way ‘All tickets please’ has been every bit as epic as the most ambitious of Eric’s excursions, whether he was landing at some out-of-the-way ferry point in the Hebrides or exchanging ships at any number of piers on a packed day’s sailing on the Clyde.

We are extremely grateful to Eric for allowing us to accompany him on his travels and giving us such vivid pictures — mental and photographic — of the sort of sailings that were once commonplace but can now be undertaken only in the mind’s eye. Even with the limited variety of routes available to us today, we can be confident Eric will make the most resourceful use of them. Let’s hope he will continue to bring them to life on these pages.

●

ALL TICKETS PLEASE — THE COMPLETE LIBRARY

Excursion to Ardrishaig with return journey up-river to Glasgow

Helensburgh to Holy Loch Cruise

Ardgour to Nether Lochaber (Corran)

Princes Dock to Ardrishaig and back via the Millport Illuminations

Campbeltown to Craigendoran

Campbeltown to Red Bay

Arran Embarkation Tickets and Brodick/Craigendoran single

Tobermory to Drimnin

Gourock/Kilcreggan return

The Short Sea Route and Larne/Islandmagee ferry

Up-river to view QE2 before launch

Glenfiddich pub menu (holiday trip to Denmark)

Midsummer amendments at Oban

Oban to Oban via Craignure, Lochaline and Corran

Cairnryan to Belfast with Stena Line

Visits to Gigha over the past 50 years

Unusual visits to Mull

By Clansman and Caledonian Isles to Arran

Scotland’s turntable ferries

The Day Sea Rover

Half-Day Excursion to the Holy Loch in the late 1960s

Glasgow to Lochboisdale and back in a day within pandemic restrictions

Two CRSC special sailings in May 1971

Early Starts for Evening Circle Cruises

Memories of the Erskine Ferry

David MacBrayne Ltd’s Runabout Ticket 1967

Five-ferry trip to Islay and Jura in spring 2022

An early-season trip to Mallaig, Skye, Harris and the Uists 2022

● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

Join CRSC here for £15 and receive all the benefits, including our annual Review of west coast ship movements, our colour magazine, reduced price DVDs photo offers and exclusive access to photo-rich ‘members only’ posts on this website.

Updated in October 2023