“Midsomer Norton – Rising from the Ashes” by John Baxter

CBR Fulbourn, Cambridge The Swifts, Haggis Gap, Fulbourn, Cambridge, United Kingdom

John Baxter is the Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust's Secretary.  He gives a 'warts and all' story of the trials and tribulations of starting a steam railway from scratch and how attempts to derail the project were dealt with to produce a small part of the former Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway for all…

Croydon & SL Branch AGM and Members’ Images

CSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United Kingdom

Our Annual General Meeting, to be followed by Members' Images (both digital and conventional slide projectors will be available). Your chance to speak up and show off! As our long serving Chairman Chris Meredith and Secretary Peter Wilson have both decided to step down, it is essential that people come forward to join the committee…

Memories of a Gorleston Spotter – Part 2

HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United Kingdom

A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation. Presenter: Chris Wright In part two of his talk, Chris will describe spotting in Hitchin 1962 to 1965, and the many trips he took from Hitchin, in the company of local spotter pals, in pursuit of steam elsewhere. He will also talk about his final forays chasing…

Southern England in the early 90’s

Junction Church 2nd Floor, Smith Bradbeer House 41-47 High Street, Eastleigh, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Local member Mark Greening give an illustrated presentation of what was happening some 30 years ago!

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Reminisces and Thoughts of a Retired Railwayman

SRY Woking Woking United Reform Church, White Rose Lane, Woking, United Kingdom

Reminisces and thoughts of a retired Railwayman (Change of speaker.  Unfortunatly, Chris Loder has had to cancel his attendance at our meeting).

“60 Years on the Calder Valley”

WRD Shipley Saltaire Methodist Church, Saltaire Road, Shipley, United Kingdom

Please note this is a change of Presenter and presentation.

The Great Central Railway

ESX Shenfield Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, United Kingdom

Physical meeting at Shenfield Parish Hall

The North Staffordshire Railway Part 3.

TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United Kingdom

Brian Sullivan returns to give us Part III of his North Staffs Railway talk, using historic digitised photos taken by “Tommy” Tomalin.  This talk covers the lines that ran to Stone and then onwards to Stoke, with a look at the Trentham Gardens branch.  We then turn left at Stoke and run to Market Drayton to meet the…

With Lance King in Ulster – The Great Northern Railway Lines: 1957-1965

CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom

Leslie McAllister pays a tribute to his late friend Lance King, with a selection of Lance’s colour photography taken in the North of Ireland in the last years of steam traction. Leslie witnessed much of what is included, as a schoolboy! The 1960s saw a halving of the Province’s railway mileage, but not before Lance…