AGM + Members Images
Cheylesmore Community Centre, Poitiers Road, Coventry 5JX Poitiers Road, Cheylesmore,, CoventryThe purpose of this meeting is to conduct our Branch AGM. Following this two members have already offered the following :- Chris Youett will present images from the David John Morton collection. David was a lifelong member of our branch who took a large number of monochrome pics from the 1930s to the 1970s. He…
Swindon Works – Hawkesworth to WR, by Canon Brian Arman, President RCTS
NHN Northampton Weston Favell Parish Hall, Booth Lane South, Northampton, United KingdomRailways Remembered – North East England
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomRecently published by Crécy is Railways Remembered: North East England. This full colour volume covers the area from the Scottish Border to the Tees, and inland to the North Pennines. All facets of railway operations are covered: steam, diesel and electric; town and country; freight and passenger; BR and industry. One of the co-authors, Charles…
Archive and Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive and Library Open Day
Western Enterprise
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomSignificant investment over recent years has radically changed the face of the Great Western, a railway so rich in history that parts have been considered worthy of UNESCO World Heritage status. Setting the scene with a brief look at today's railway, this talk ranges widely across the route, blending aspects of the speaker's fifty-year western…
HSD branch – As I see it
HSD Hull The Highway, Willerby Road, Hull, United KingdomAs I see it
Leatherhead Station & Stationmasters House
SOE Eastleigh Junction Church (formerly Eastleigh Railway Institute), 2 Romsey Road, Eastleigh, United KingdomRCTS Archive & Library Officer Andy Davies illustrates the importance of this facility
Multiple units around the UK. by James Sutcliffe
LNW Preston Fulwood Lawn Tennis Club, Watling Street Road, Preston, United KingdomSouth Western Railway update
MHD Cox Green Cox Green Community Centre, Highfield Lane, Cox Green, Maidenhead, United KingdomWe welcome Steve Tyler, Performance and Planning Director of South Western Railway to give an update on the latest developments with one of our busiest train operators
East Anglia in the 2020s
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation. Presenter: Iain Scotchman. Details to follow. Doors open 13:30.
An historic account of electric traction systems – Dave Saunders
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomThat was the year that was – 1962
'Geoff was born in Sheffield in 1949, into a railway-mad family, starting his railway enthusiasm at the age of around 18 months. After some early attempts with the family Box Brownie camera in the 1950s, he was given his first ‘proper’ camera for his thirteenth birthday in March 1962, this eventually leading to his career…