Surrey Branch – Great Victorian Engineers – Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Great Victorian Engineers - Isambard Kingdom Brunel By Chris Green
Great Victorian Engineers - Isambard Kingdom Brunel By Chris Green
Our speaker, Richard Clifford, interested observer of HS2 (who owns a drone !) will give us a detailed presentation of this ongoing project.
Maggie Simpson from the Rail Freight Group will be giving us an insight into the current issues facing the rail freight sector. Physical meeting at Shenfield Parish Hall. This talk will also be available on Zoom as a Hybrid
A presentation by John Douglas covering the rise, peak, and eventual decline of the vast network of industrial, standard-gauge, and narrow-gauge railways that served the ironstone quarries and blast furnaces of Northamptonshire. Please note change from previously advertised talk. This is a joint meeting with the Milton Keynes branch; the venue is Roade Village Hall.
presented by Brian Sharpe
Brian Sharpe will talk to us about the railways of the East Midlands
Archive And Library Open Day
Join 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
Archive And Library Open Day
A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by Stephen Gay. Details to follow. Doors open 13:30 for 14:00 start.
Hugh Driscoll recounts his time at Stratford Depot, also covering the origins and development of the depot and its subsequent decline and closure.