Ramblings with a new camera in 1962/1963
CHM Cheltenham Victory Club, Burlington House, Lypiatt Road, Cheltenham, United KingdomBrian Holland brings some images from the early 1960s. This will be a joint meeting with Cheltenham Railway Action Photographers so it will be intriguing to see what we will see. Come along to find out!
South Western Railway – An Update
SRY Woking Woking United Reform Church, White Rose Lane, Woking, United KingdomClaire Mann - Managing Director, South Western Railway.
All Things North & Eastern
WRD Shipley Saltaire Methodist Church, Saltaire Road, Shipley, United Kingdom
The Long Lost Roy Vincent and Tom Williams Collections
WMD Coventry Cheylesmore Community Centre, Arundel/Poitiers Road, Coventry, United KingdomFor many years both authors and publishers alike would have loved to include images from these collections in their titles. In this presentation our own well versed speaker, Chris Youett, will explain their stories in detail. Roy Vincent was an official photographer for the LNER and later British Railways Eastern region. We will also include…
My life as a Railway Civil Engineer by Steve Brame
NHN Northampton Weston Favell Parish Hall, Booth Lane South, Northampton, United KingdomNorthamptonian Steve Brame trained as an Engineer and worked for BR on new bridge works in the 1970s, and finished with Crossrail, with other work in between on projects such as revisions to the Silverstone Racetrack.
Sheffield to Cleethorpes – Part 2
MCN Bromborough The Bromborough Suite. The Merebrook, Greenfields Avenue, Bromborough, Wirral, Merseyside, United Kingdom
The Current Day Scene in Europe
ESX Shenfield Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, United KingdomThe show will feature pictures of the modern scene in Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Luxembourg and Baltic States. Brian spent 41 years with BR in operations control at such places as Liverpool Lime St, Rugby, Stoke on Trent, Manchester Victoria, London Euston, Orpington Beckenham, London Waterloo ending up with Railtrack in Blackfriars Road,…
Archive & Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom
All Change, Britain’s Railways 1967 to 1979
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomFollowing Mike’s personal farewell tour of steam around the UK in 1966, railways took a back seat in his life. University, jobs, marriage, and children took over and railway photographs generally resulted from being at a location for other reasons, rather than special trips to photograph trains. However, the photos he did take chart an…
NR’s New Measurement Train and the infrastructure monitoring fleet – Brendan Rice
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomBrendan will describe the use of the NMT and the other infrastructure monitoring vehicles in the RTC fleet
A Toss of the Coin – My Life as a Railway Professional
CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomDavid says - The talk is called 'A Toss of the Coin' as one shaped my railway career to the operating rather than marketing side and I would cover my railway training at Old Oak Common in the late 50s and WR training in 1961-4, SM and AM roles in South Wales in 1960s, ten…
Steam in the British Isles in the 1960s
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomA presentation by Tony Bowles of his own images, featuring steam working all around the United Kingdom - on the main lines of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from 1962 onward until the end in 1968, and also of industrial steam into the early 1970s.