Branch Meetings – in person only

Name: CHM Branch – Branch Annual Business Meeting and Members Entertain
Start: 2026-04-16T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-04-16T22:00:00+01:00
Location: CHM Cheltenham

March 2026
“Freedom of Scotland 1961” Part 2 by John Sloane Meeting Cancelled due to building work at venue, rescheduled for October 30th 2026.

Fri 27th March @ 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Fulwood Lawn Tennis club Highgate Ave Preston PR2 8DY Highgate Ave, Preston, Lancashire
The Harwich Branch

Tue 31st March @ 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM

HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by Dave Goodyear. The Harwich branch has a rich and varied history, with its combination of named boat trains to Parkeston Quay…
April 2026
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
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…
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…
NEA Branch – Coal Traffic and Branch Lines in the North East

Thu 16th April @ 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

NEA Darlington Darlington Cricket Club, South Terrace, Darlington, United Kingdom

Presented by Malcolm Paul
CHM Branch – Branch Annual Business Meeting and Members Entertain

Thu 16th April @ 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

CHM Cheltenham Victory Club, Burlington House, Lypiatt Road, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Time to review the past year and select the committee to take us into the next season. We'll try and keep the business bit brief so we can spend more…

March 2026

April 2026