“The Fylde Line: An 80s Ride from Manchester Victoria to Blackpool” by Alan Jones
CBR Fulbourn, Cambridge The Swifts, Haggis Gap, Fulbourn, Cambridge, United KingdomThe 1980s were a period of significant change on BR. New multiple units began to replace first generation ones. Long standing traffics moved to road, such as newspapers printed in Manchester and traditionally dispatched by rail to towns and cities across Northern England. Remnants of domestic coal traffic still existed, illustrated by workings on the…
Steam in the 1960’s
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Chris Wright. Chris Wright, a native of Gorleston-on-Sea, spent many school holidays 1959-1965 spotting in Hitchin. In a two-part presentation, the first Tuesday 10th October, the second Tuesday May 14th 2024, he will talk about his early spotting ventures in Norfolk; the end of steam in…
My Favourite Trips
Branch Treasurer and regular contributor to the Branch newsletter Right Tracks, Steve Rickett will present his favourite images from 40 years of railway photography. One of Steve's recent images from a branch Observation outing is 710 269 at Barking working 2J39, the 10.54 Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside on 20 May
My Favourite Moments 1986 to 2019
SWL Radyr, Cardiff Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, United KingdomSteve Rickett, Branch Treasurer and regular contributor to Right Tracks, the Branch Newsletter will present a series of images celebrating more than 40 years of following and photographing trains across Great Britain Steve's image of 710269 working 2J39 10:54 Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside at Barking on 20 May 2023 during a branch observation…
Farnham & District MRC Exhibition
Alderwood Leisure Centre, Tongham Road, Aldershot, GU12 4AS Alderwood Leisure Centre, Tongham Road, Aldershot,, United KingdomSurrey Branch will be attending the Farnham & District MRC Exhibition, with our sales stand, at Alderwood Leisure Centre, Tongham Road, Aldershot, GU12 4AS. Assistance with manning the stand would be appreciated.
Archive and Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive and Library Open Day
Railways in the 1970’s
WEN Exeter [Mint Methodist Church] Fore Street, Exeter, United KingdomFor the first meeting of the 2023/24 programme, David Hunt, will provide an evening of nostalgia which will cover the railways of the UK in the corporate rail blue era of the 1970s with its variety of loco classes and variety of freight, the majority of which is long gone. It will be an entertaining…
Farnham & District MRC Exhibition
Alderwood Leisure Centre, Tongham Road, Aldershot, GU12 4AS Alderwood Leisure Centre, Tongham Road, Aldershot,, United KingdomSurrey Branch will be attending the Farnham & District MRC Exhibition, with our sales stand, at Alderwood Leisure Centre, Tongham Road, Aldershot, GU12 4AS. Assistance with manning the stand would be appreciated.
The LMS Patriot Project
Cheylesmore Community Centre, Poitiers Road, Coventry 5JX Poitiers Road, Cheylesmore,, CoventryThe LMS-Patriot Project - Our aims and progress to date The LMS-Patriot is building a working Patriot class steam locomotive as a National Memorial Engine, recreating a railway heritage and Remembrance link established after the Great War and lost in the 1960s. Inspired by the Great War Centenaries of recent years - Armistice Day and…
British Rail in the early 1980s – The Swansong of Corporate Identity
ESX Shenfield Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, United KingdomMervyn joined British Rail after university in September 1973 as a Traffic Management Trainee based in the Doncaster Divisional Management Office. His first two roles after training were Traffic Assistant at Shirebrook and then shift manager of freight operations on Tees-side based in Tees Yard. He moved south in 1979, becoming Area Passenger and Parcels…
WW1 & WW2 Cross Channel Train Ferries and Associated Railways
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomThe presentation will initially look at how Cross Channel Train Ferries were first introduced during WW1 to move Railway Equipment to France. We will the look at the use in WW2 following commercial introduction of the Harwich Zeebrugge and Dover Calais Train Ferries between the wars. There will also be coverage of British railway activity…
HSD branch – Yorkshire diesels Part 1 1985-96
HSD Hull The Highway, Willerby Road, Hull, United KingdomYorkshire diesels Part 1 1985-96