Tunnel Vision – The History of the Metropolitan Railway
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation. Presenter: Colin Brading. The story of the Metropolitan, the world’s first underground railway. Less than four miles long when it opened -…
An A to Z guide to GCR locomotives – Bob Gellatly
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Eastleigh from Railway Junction to Railway Centre
CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomThe history of the town from the opening of the Railway Station, Carriage Works and Locomotive Works. Following this there will be a look at the combining of the Carriage…
A 1968 Jet Search for Steam
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomThe introduction of “Pacesetter” fares for under-26-year-olds in 1968 made international air travel much more affordable, and Frank Stamford - our regular Australian attendee - took advantage of them to…
Archive and Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive and Library Open Day
Branch AGM, followed by ‘The Story of the Travelling Post Office’ by Roland Gillott
WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United KingdomThe Watford Branch AGM will commence at 18:45 (please note this is earlier than our usual start time) and we hope to conclude that by 19:00. This will be followed…
London Midland Region – Review of the 1950s/1960s
MCN Liverpool Haig House Social Club, Woolton Road, Garston, Liverpool, United KingdomPlease note that this is a change of subject and speaker because the intended speaker, Paul Shackcloth, is unwell.
LMS Patriot project
royal station hotel carnforthcolin hall will give a sesssion on how this remarkeable project is progressing
Archive and Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive and Library Open Day
Great Central Railway – Re-Unification
MKY Milton Keynes Network Rail - The Quadrant: MK, Elder Gate, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United KingdomTom Ingall from the Great Central Railway gives a talk on possibly the UK’s biggest heritage railway project, the re-unification of the two halves of the preserved section of the…
‘East Coast Main Line part 2 – North From York’ by Stephen Gay
BTL North Filton St Teresa’s Church Hall, 71 Gloucester Road, North Filton, United KingdomFollowing the East Coast Main Line North from York to Edinburgh Waverly this 205 mile journey calls off at the principal stations en-route. The show uses Stephen's recently taken slides…