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.
Installing the Station Canopy from Maidenhead on the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway
MHD Cox Green Cox Green Community Centre, Highfield Lane, Cox Green, Maidenhead, United KingdomLearn how the unwanted assets of the big railway can help the little railway, the challenges faced and the wonderful results
The History of the Paris Metro
HTC Welwyn Garden City Ludwick Way Methodist Church, 149 Ludwick Way, Welwyn Garden City, United KingdomA Hitchin and Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Mike Bunn. A look at the 122-year history of Europe's second busiest and one of the world's densest metro systems, with over 300 stations. The expansion of the network, station architecture, development of rolling stock, including the introduction of rubber tyred trains to five lines, the…
Branch AGM and Members’ Presentations
MKY Milton Keynes Network Rail - The Quadrant: MK, Elder Gate, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United KingdomThe Branch Annual General Meeting, followed by member’s presentations. We would like to invite you to bring along an item of railway memorabilia from your collection that you would like to share and talk about. Please speak to any of the committee at the November meeting if you would be interested in talking about your…