Branch Meetings

Name: Westward Bound – a Selection of Photographs from the Society’s Photographic Archive
Start: 2026-04-14T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-04-14T22:00:00+01:00
Location: CSL Croydon

April 2026
Navigation Road and all that by Ted Buckley

Wed 1st April @ 1:30 PM - 3:45 PM

MCN Liverpool Cheshire Lines Sports & Recreation Club, Southmead Road, Allerton, Liverpool, United Kingdom
FLL – Steam and Diesels in the Northern Fells

Wed 1st April @ 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

FLL Carnforth Royal Station Hotel, Market Street, Carnforth, United Kingdom

with Ian Pilkington
Milton Keynes Branch Meeting – ‘The Southern End of the WCML, 1930s to Present Day’

Thu 2nd April @ 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

MKY Milton Keynes Network Rail - The Quadrant: MK, Elder Gate, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

Rob Freeman presents ‘The Southern End of the WCML, 1930s to Present Day’, featuring photos from the H C Casserley Collection, plus a selection of his own photos.
WFD Branch Meeting – AGM, Followed by ‘Railways from both Sides of the Fence’, by Jason Cross, 7th April 2026

Tue 7th April @ 6:45 PM - 9:30 PM

WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United Kingdom

Branch AGM, followed by: JASON CROSS - 'Railways from Both Sides of the Fence' - A slide show by a GBRf employee which includes an overview of joining the company,…
My railway journeys in 2025

Featured Thu 9th April @ 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

PBR Peterborough St Luke’s Church, Mayor's Walk, Peterborough, United Kingdom

Join Harry Nethercoat from our Watford branch as he looks back on his journeys in 2025, stretching from Cornwall, up to Scotland - with stops in-between including; London, Cardiff, and…

£3.50 – £5
Bristol Meeting – ‘The Bill Potter Collection. A Classic Rail Archive 1938 – 1988’.

Fri 10th April @ 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

BTL North Filton St Teresa’s Church Hall, 71 Gloucester Road, North Filton, United Kingdom

Steam locomotive driver & fireman Chris Smith, presents a slide show from his collection featuring the high quality railway photographs of Bill Potter. The show focuses on Steam and Diesel…
WEN Branch Meeting : Steve Montgomery : The Dave Nicholas collection

Sat 11th April @ 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

WEN Exeter [Mint Methodist Church] Fore Street, Exeter, United Kingdom

Steve Montgomery of Exerail fame will be giving a presentation of colour and black/white images captured by Dave Nicholas when living in the Bristol Area. Mainly steam and with extensive…

£2
Visit to East London Area

Tue 14th April
Barry Coward – A talk on British Transport Films illustrated with excerpts from BTF titles.

Tue 14th April @ 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

SFD Sheffield Farm Road Sports & Social Club Farm Road, Sheffield, United Kingdom
The Vintage Trains Story – To a Train Operating Company

Tue 14th April @ 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM

HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by Mike Corbett. Details to follow. Doors open 13:30 for 14:00 start.
“The Soham Disaster” by Richard Munns

Tue 14th April @ 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

CBR Fulbourn, Cambridge The Swifts, Haggis Gap, Fulbourn, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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…
Westward Bound – a Selection of Photographs from the Society’s Photographic Archive

Tue 14th April @ 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

CSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United Kingdom

David Jackman will make a photographic journey through the last hundred years of steam, diesel and electric traction starting at Paddington and heading west using photographs from the society's photographic…

April 2026