On Tuesday 8th April 2025 we welcome local railway historian and photographer David Scudamore for the fourth in his highly popular and erudite series on railways around Cambridge. The talk will look at many aspects of the railways from opening to the present day, ranging from locomotives and trains to railway infrastructure. Starting in Cambridge, after…
For our final meeting of the 2024/25 season, we are delighted to welcome Dave Pearce who will be presenting ‘Roger Harrison’s East Anglian Railways’. Roger Harrison was an avid and loyal member of the Norfolk Railway Society from its inception in 1955 until he passed away in 2010. He was extraordinarily generous to the Society…
Our 2025/26 season opens with a much-anticipated visit from Raymond Schofield who will take us through the history of the East Coast Main Line. The North-East of England was at the forefront of railway growth, starting some 300 years ago with colliery lines delivering coal to staithes on the Tyne and Tees. Early passenger lines…
On Tuesday 14th October we welcome Tony Roberts who will give a presentation on the different routes taken by freight trains and steam specials to cross London. This will be a video presentation, focusing on important junctions, and is guaranteed to expand everyone's knowledge of the capital's rail network!
On Tuesday November 11th 2025 we are delighted to welcome Clive Feather who will take us through some of the marvels of modern railway signalling and its development over several decades. This is sure to be a fantastic evening, that will give many insights into an aspect of railway operation that can be quite difficult…
Tuesday 9thDecember is our AGM, followed my Members' Photographs. The Agenda for the AGM can be found here and the Chairman's Report is here.
Wolverhampton was served by two mainlines, the ex GWR route from Paddington and the ex LMS route from Euston. BR's investment in the 1960s was focused entirely on the ex LMS route, and once the full electric service to Euston began in March 1967 the GWR route to Birmingham went into terminal decline and closed…
We are delighted to welcome David Cross back to the Cambridge Branch on February 10th, when he will present a selection of his late father Derek Cross's slides from the outer suburbs of London, following the geography of the current M25 motorway. All images are in colour and the excellence of Derek's photography combined with…
We are delighted to welcome Geoff Plumb again for more of his many days out around and about, including UK scenes in Brighton, Bristol and the London area, among others. West Germany features quite strongly, and the main event sees a visit to South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique for a feast of steam, in repose…
Following his highly successful talk on the railways of March in last year's programme, local railway historian Richard Munns pays another very welcome visit to the Branch to take us through the infamous accident at Soham on June 2nd 1944.
Humberside and North Lincolnshire are often overlooked as major locations of interesting rail activity. We set this straight at our May meeting as Dick Crane closes the 25/26 season with a look at the past and present rail scene in this part of the network.
