Stewart Jolly travels up the M5 to bring us views of former Midland Railway areas in the BR blue era. The presentation covers locations in Yorkshire and the East Midlands, mainly in the 1980s with a few images from the early 1990s, all ‘modern traction’ as it was at the time.
Lance King in Ulster: The Great Northern Lines: 1957-1965 By Leslie McAllister
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Milton Keynes Branch AGM followed by presentation - Title TBC
Ian tells the story of returning 89001 “Avocet” to the main line after several years of hard work to make this unique electric locomotive operational again.
A Bern Lotchsberg Simplon regional train We are delighted to welcome Steve Ollive from the Maidenhead & Windsor branch who will give us an illustrated talk that covers the three main operators, mention of open access and infrastructure operators and private companies from A to C.
Tom Ingall is our presenter for this evening's topic of the Reunification of the Great Central Railway. The older GCR heritage railway runs between Leicester and Loughborough, and the more recent GCR(N) runs between Loughborough Junction (just to the north of the Midland Main Line) and Ruddington. The two elements are tantalisingly close to each…
