NEA York to Edinburgh
NEA Darlington Darlington Cricket Club, South Terrace, Darlington, United Kingdom
Fun with Southern Steam in the 1960s
CHM Cheltenham Victory Club, Burlington House, Lypiatt Road, Cheltenham, United KingdomWe are looking forward to the weather playing nicely for Malcolm Garner to come with a digital presentation on his time chasing steam around the Southern Region in the 1960s. Malcolm was due to come in December last year, but heavy snow put that plan in the bin!
How we built the Watercress Line: the Preservation Venture 1973-1985 – HYBRID Meeting
SRY Woking Woking United Reform Church, White Rose Lane, Woking, United KingdomHow we built the Watercress Line: the Preservation Venture 1973-1985 This event will be held in person at Woking and online via Zoom.
“The Keith Pirt Collection” – Presenter Bob Gellatly
WRD Shipley Saltaire Methodist Church, Saltaire Road, Shipley, United KingdomSix Decades of Steam Photography by Tony Storey
NHN Northampton Weston Favell Parish Hall, Booth Lane South, Northampton, United KingdomTony will present photographs of steam around the country in BR days as well as a selection from the early days of preservation.
Railway at a Junction
MHD Cox Green Cox Green Community Centre, Highfield Lane, Cox Green, Maidenhead, United KingdomA reflection on British Railways, privatisation and a look at where today’s railway is and which route it’s likely to take over the next decade
The Line from Doncaster to Hull
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Stephen Gay. Doors open 13:30.
The History of the Mansfield to Worksop Railway
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomDenis Hill will take a brief look at how different railways had already reached Mansfield and Worksop but had not joined the two together. We look at the fight to make that connection and to see just what it provided and how it boosted the local economy.
Archive and Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive and Library Open Day
Irish Narrow Gauge
SWL Swansea Dyfatty Community Centre, Chapel Street, Dyfatty, Swansea, United KingdomBranch Sales Officer and Fixture Secretary Nigel Wassell relaunches our Swansea programme with a series of images capturing the variety of narrow gauge in Ireland. Outside the Foyle Valley Railway Museum, Londonderry The locomotive in the image is a 3ft narrow gauge locomotive built for the County Donegal Joint Railways Committee (CDJRC) in 1907 by…
An American Rail Rover
CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomJohn's talk will look at railway operations across the USA from the East Coast across to Chicago, the Mid-West to the rocky mountains. North to the Canadian border and south through the Sierra Nevada's, the high desert to the Californian Tehachapi range to San Francisco and through the Cajon mountains towards Los Angeles. Featuring long…
The World beyond our Shores – Part 1
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomTony Bowles of The Restoration & Archiving Trust returns with what promises to be another excellent prestation from their collections, featuring the work of the late Gerald Dixon, taken between 1960 & 1976 in chronological order. It starts in Australia & ends in Argentina via parts of Europe, Africa & Asia, in some cases returning…