Britain’s Railways Through The Lens – an evening with Jack Boskett
MKY Milton Keynes Network Rail - The Quadrant: MK, Elder Gate, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United KingdomBack by popular demand, our first face to face meeting of the season welcomes multi award winning photographer Jack Boskett, who has an extensive catalogue of railway images in his portfolio and regularly travels across the UK to follow different excursions and special train movements.
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WEN Exeter [Mint Methodist Church] Fore Street, Exeter, United KingdomFollowing on from the success of his last talk John returns with another selection of pictures from his extensive collection. It promises to be an evening of nostalgia from John as he cover some of the more unusual trains to pass through Devon in the recent past. Please note owing to a concert at the…
Swindon Works-The Golden Years-Part V Hawksworth to Closure of the Works by Rev Canon Brian Arman
IPS Ipswich Greenfinch Church Hall, Greenfinch Avenue, Ipswich, United Kingdom
European Steam – a Video Miscellany
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomMichael Grieves started taking cine film in the 1960s, and from 1969 into the 1970s, took much on various trips to Europe in search of steam, which has now been scanned into digital format. Tonight he will show a miscellany, drawing from trips to Czechoslovakia, Austria - featuring the Vordernberg rack line in winter -…
San Francisco cable cars – Tom Ingall
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomKeith Marshall: A day return from Settle to Carlisle with preserved steam and BR diesels
SFD Sheffield Farm Road Sports & Social Club Farm Road, Sheffield, United KingdomNote this is a change from the previously advertised speaker
“Cambridge Area Railways Yesterday and Today (Part 3)” by David Scudamore
CBR Fulbourn, Cambridge The Swifts, Haggis Gap, Fulbourn, Cambridge, United KingdomThis third talk in David's popular series on railways around Cambridge, from their opening to today, begins with the line from Cambridge to Audley End and then eastwards via Saffron Walden to Bartlow Junction. The route back towards Cambridge is followed as far as Shepreth Branch Junction where we take the Kings Cross line to…
A Lifetime of Railway Photography
CSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomNot quite a lifetime, John took his first picture at the age of nine using his mother's rather ancient folding camera. He was already interested in railways as most boys of his generation were, where the passion came from for recording what he saw on film is lost in the mists of time but it's…
Branch AGM + The Son of a Rail Enthusiast
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Event. The branch AGM - followed by a presentation given by Richard Cole, son of David Cole who was the founder of the branch and a Vice President of the RCTS. Richard will be looking through some of his dad’s slides and explaining how his passion for railways influenced…
Archive and Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive and Library Open Day
The Great Train Robbery 1963 : The Story
The in-depth story of the planning and execution of the Great Train Robbery bu Ian Boskett