East Anglian Railway Heritage
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomThe presentation includes visits to Heritage Railways in East Anglia from 2011 and more frequent trips to the area following the presenters daughter’s move to Norfolk in 2018, looking at heritage infrastructure on the national railway network and the surprising amount of surviving evidence of the many and varied lines through mainly rural areas many…
HSD branch – Skipton to Mallaig by train 1979-present
Mike Wedgewood - “Skipton to Mallaig by train 1979- present.”
Train Ferries of WW1 and WW2
SOE Eastleigh Junction Church (formerly Eastleigh Railway Institute), 2 Romsey Road, Eastleigh, United KingdomArchive & Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive & Library Open Day
CHM Branch – McRailrover
CHM Cheltenham Victory Club, Burlington House, Lypiatt Road, Cheltenham, United KingdomIn the 1970s and 1980s, Scotland provided some amazing opportunities to travel around the country, through fantastic scenery, across the roof of the United Kingdom still, then, using locomotive hauled trains away from the big city centre and suburban services. Stuart Warr travels up the River Severn to present an evening of rail-roving - Scottish…
SRY Branch – The Canadian Pacific Project
SRY Woking Woking United Reform Church, White Rose Lane, Woking, United KingdomRebecca Dalley – CEO Watercress Line
Branch EGM + “Looking Back – New Zealand” by Bill Jagger
WRD Shipley Saltaire Methodist Church, Saltaire Road, Shipley, United Kingdom
The Broad Gauge – Swindon to the West of England
Cheylesmore Community Centre, Poitiers Road, Coventry 5JX Poitiers Road, Cheylesmore,, CoventryAfter his previous visits taking us from Paddington to Swindon and Swindon to West Wales our president, Brian Arman, will take us from Swindon to the West of England.
The End of Steam – Part 1, 1966-68, by Michael Smyth
NHN Northampton - Weston Favell Weston Favell Parish Hall, Booth Lane South, Northampton, United Kingdom
40 Years of Preserving Deltics
ESX Shenfield Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, United KingdomPhysical meeting at Shenfield Parish Hall also available via Zoom as a Hybrid The 'Deltics' changed the image of East Coast Main Line in the 1960's and became perhaps the most iconic of the BR Modernisation diesel locomotives. Fortunately a number of these imposing giants survived into preservation, largely due to the efforts of the…
Archive & Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive & Library Open Day
The Railways of Iran
Tim visited Iran in 2017 with the Farrail group and shares his photos of trains in the magnificent mountains and wonderful deserts of that country. He also presents an overview of the country's largely locomotive-hauled railway passenger and freight operations and its ever expanding railway infrastructure, together with some insights into the country itself and…