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Members’ Day and AGM 2024
Members’ Day and AGM 2024
The AGM part of the day will allow remote participation via Zoom. If attending remotely, you must pre-register with Zoom, using the link below. Brunel Suite, Grand Station, Sun Street, Wolverhampton, WV10 0BF Saturday 20th April 2024 (doors open at 10.30 for 11:00 start) Programme for the day 11.00       Welcome and Refreshments Professional photographer Jack…
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Just Like the Old Days
Just Like the Old Days
Des will present an historical photographic journey with images taken in recent years but which scenically could have been taken many years ago and he did
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The 1968 Hixon Level Crossing Disaster
The 1968 Hixon Level Crossing Disaster
In this dreadful accident a huge articulated transporter lorry, carrying a 120-ton transformer slowly over the automatic level crossing at Hixon, was hit by a 500-ton express train travelling at about 75mph. It was truly a dramatic case of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object. The terrific impact not only destroyed the electric locomotive,…
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The Narrow Gauge Railways of France
The Narrow Gauge Railways of France
Tony Bowles brings us another selection from The Restoration & Archiving Trust, this time comprising a mixture of colour and black & white photographs covering the narrow gauge lines in France that were still existed from the mid 1950s onwards, starting in Corsica & finishing on the Reseau Breton. For this virtual event, you will…
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Swindon Works and Railway Sites Walkaround Tour
Swindon Works and Railway Sites Walkaround Tour
We plan to have a walkaround tour of the various remaining railway sites in Swindon. The tour will last approximately two hours and will be led by a former Swindon works employee and lifelong Swindon resident Martin Telling. During the walkaround tour we plan to visit the various workshops that still remain in the former works…
That Was The Year That Was – 1971
That Was The Year That Was – 1971
A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation. Presenter: Geoff Plumb Geoff returns with another of his popular TWTYTW series. ‘That Was the Year That Was – 1971’. A very busy year covering railways in the UK, including British Railways, industrials, some North Wales narrow gauge, last of steam on London Transport, Humber paddle steamers,…
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35mm gricing home and abroad
35mm gricing home and abroad
Railway Observer editor Mike robinson will show some of his excellent pictures
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The Vintage Trains Story – the rise to a Train Operating Company
The Vintage Trains Story – the rise to a Train Operating Company
Joint meeting with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Mike Corbett gives a talk on the history and development of Birmingham based ‘Vintage Trains’ to Train Operating Company status, together with the Tyseley collection of steam and diesel locomotives, including the application of modern technology to heritage stock to enable main line operation.
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Railway Holidays in the West Country – Devon & Somerset by Stuart Warr
Railway Holidays in the West Country – Devon & Somerset by Stuart Warr
Stuart Warr returns to continue his reminiscences of Railway Holidays in the West Country, this time visiting Devon & Somerset.
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