Milton Keynes Branch Meeting – British Railway Disasters – Hixon and Ladbroke Grove
Fraser Pithie presents on two significant accidents in the history of Britain’s railways - Hixon (6th January1968) and Ladbroke Grove (5th October 1999).
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MKY Milton Keynes Network Rail - The Quadrant: MK, Elder Gate, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
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A 12th Colour Rail Journey
St Marks Church Hall, Hitchin SG5 1UR St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, HertfordshireA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Paul Chancellor. Our twelfth Colour-Rail Journey will be the last and in a change for those preceding it , it tells…
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“Neville Hill – Diary of an Escapee” by Peter Holden
WRD Shipley Saltaire Methodist Church, Saltaire Road, Shipley, United Kingdom -
The West Somerset Railway – Plus More
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Richard Morris. Following the opening of the Bristol and Exeter Railway in 1845 there were soon thoughts about connecting it to…
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WFD Branch – ‘That Was the Year That Was – 1972’, by Geoff Plumb, 1st July 2025
WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United KingdomGEOFF PLUMB - 'That Was the Year That Was - 1972'. More of Geoff's many days out around and about, including UK scenes and West Germany. The main event sees…
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Milton Keynes Branch Meeting – ‘North of the border from the Tweed to Thurso’ – by Ray Schofield
MKY Milton Keynes Network Rail - The Quadrant: MK, Elder Gate, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United KingdomA presentation by Ray Schofield. A journey on some of the most scenic rails north of the Border commencing with the Royal Border Bridge at Berwick on Tweed via Edinburgh,…
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On Great Eastern Lines Since 1991
St Marks Church Hall, Hitchin SG5 1UR St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, HertfordshireA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Geoff Brockett. In Geoff’s own words – “The show is based on a presentation I did for the Great Eastern Railway…
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UK Railways in the 21st Century
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by John Day. A presentation taken year on year for the first 25 years of the 21st Century looking at everyday service trains,…
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WFD Branch – ‘Through Kirton Tunnel Part 1’, A railway journey from Sheffield Victoria to Kirton Lindsey, by Stephen Gay, 2nd September 2025
WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United KingdomWe welcome back the ever-popular Stephen Gay for another visit and more excellent photography, this time with a journey from Sheffield Victoria to Kirton Lindsey, doubtless with some poetic interludes!…
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Milton Keynes Branch Meeting – ’40 Years of Deltic Preservation’
MKY Milton Keynes Network Rail - The Quadrant: MK, Elder Gate, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United KingdomMurray Brown, former editor of ‘Rail Enthusiast’ and ‘Rail’ magazines and Chairman of the Deltic Preservation Society, gives a talk on the highs and lows of looking after these iconic…
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Bristol Meeting – ‘South Wales Railways in the 21st Century’ by Stuart Warr.
BTL North Filton St Teresa’s Church Hall, 71 Gloucester Road, North Filton, United KingdomProlific and accomplished photographer Stuart Warr will be showing us a selection of his recent work.
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The Midland Main Line – Bedford to St Pancras
HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation, from the Peter Bland Collection, by Bryan Cross. A digital presentation of images mostly scanned directly from the negatives of Peter Bland…