Archive And Library Open Day
Archive And Library Open Day
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RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom
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Three Ways to Monmouth
SWL Radyr, Cardiff Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, United KingdomThia month's talk come from Ray Viney, who will be looking back back at the railway history of a town that was once the hub of three routes with two stations but is now completely disconnected from the National Network, Monmouth. Doors open at 7 for a 7:30 start and our preloved bookstall will be…
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My railway journeys in 2025
FeaturedPBR Peterborough St Luke’s Church, Mayor's Walk, Peterborough, United KingdomJoin Harry Nethercoat from our Watford branch as he looks back on his journeys in 2025, stretching from Cornwall, up to Scotland - with stops in-between including; London, Cardiff, and closer to home. Expect all traction types on the mainline and in preservation
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Bristol Meeting – ‘The Bill Potter Collection. A Classic Rail Archive 1938 – 1988’.
BTL North Filton St Teresa’s Church Hall, 71 Gloucester Road, North Filton, United KingdomSteam locomotive driver & fireman Chris Smith, presents a slide show from his collection featuring the high quality railway photographs of Bill Potter. The show focuses on Steam and Diesel Hydraulic traction.
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WEN Branch Meeting : Steve Montgomery : The Dave Nicholas collection
WEN Exeter [Mint Methodist Church] Fore Street, Exeter, United KingdomSteve Montgomery of Exerail fame will be giving a presentation of colour and black/white images captured by Dave Nicholas when living in the Bristol Area. Mainly steam and with extensive records to back up the narrative it promises to be an evening of nostalgia of a by-gone era from an excellent photographer
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Archive And Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive And Library Open Day
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Midland Main Line miscellany – Phil Lyndsey
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomPhil Lindsey takes us on a journey along the Midland Main Line from St Pancras to Ratcliffe on Soar, with the main focus being the Northamptonshire and Leicestershire sections. The presentation contains many of Phil’s own images, from the ‘Leicester Gap’ years to the modern day, but also draws on the extensive and historical Midland…
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Barry Coward – A talk on British Transport Films illustrated with excerpts from BTF titles.
SFD Sheffield Farm Road Sports & Social Club Farm Road, Sheffield, United Kingdom -
The Vintage Trains Story – To a Train Operating Company
HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by Mike Corbett. Details to follow. Doors open 13:30 for 14:00 start.
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“The Soham Disaster” by Richard Munns
CBR Fulbourn, Cambridge The Swifts, Haggis Gap, Fulbourn, Cambridge, United KingdomFollowing his highly successful talk on the railways of March in last year's programme, local railway historian Richard Munns pays another very welcome visit to the Branch to take us through the infamous accident at Soham on June 2nd 1944.
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Westward Bound – a Selection of Photographs from the Society’s Photographic Archive
CSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomDavid Jackman will make a photographic journey through the last hundred years of steam, diesel and electric traction starting at Paddington and heading west using photographs from the society's photographic archive