A Driver’s Eye View – 48 Years on the Railway
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Andy Grimmett. In his own words - My presentation looks mainly at the engineering side of my life on the railway, showing some of the areas l had to work at, plus a look at some of the various vehicles and equipment used, relative to the…
Welsh Narrow Gauge Railways : A Personal View 1990 – 2024
SWL Radyr, Cardiff Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, United KingdomAlan Williams has been taking photos of the Welsh narrow gauge since I was a young lad, but it became a serious endeavour during the 1990s and since then I have accumulated a wealth of material, enough for a second show if the first one goes OK. It will be a personal view, not a…
Archive & Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive & Library Open Day
Images from Glass Plate Negatives – David Postle – Kidderminster Railway Museum
Cheylesmore Community Centre, Poitiers Road, Coventry 5JX Poitiers Road, Cheylesmore,, CoventryOur good friend, David Postle, from the Kidderminster Railway Museum will be presenting a selection of images scanned from original glass plate negatives. These images from the Museum's archive have been restored to a very high standard.
Merseyrail Class 777 Review
MCN Bromborough The Bromborough Suite. The Merebrook, Greenfields Avenue, Bromborough, Wirral, Merseyside, United Kingdom
On Great Eastern Metals From 1991 to Date
ESX Shenfield Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, United KingdomPhysical meeting at Shenfield Parish Hall Our member, Geoff Brocket, is a prolific photographer, who always seems to be able to get the photos that no one else can. This outing covers photos on the Great Eastern Railway from 1991 to the present day. Like many of us, Geoff prefers locos to multiple units so…
The Ivatt LMS 10000 Recreation Project
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomThe Ivatt Diesel Re-creation Society plan to recreate, and operate 10000. In the first half of this presentation we look at the original twins LMS 10000 and 10001 (the first British mainline diesel electric locomotives), and their place in history. 10000 and 10001 were designed by H.G. Ivatt and built by the LMS at…
HSD branch – My medium format in the 90s
HSD Hull The Highway, Willerby Road, Hull, United KingdomEddie Parker- “My medium format in the 90s”
Changing Trains in the 1980’s
SOE Eastleigh Junction Church (formerly Eastleigh Railway Institute), 2 Romsey Road, Eastleigh, United KingdomArchive & Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive & Library Open Day
CHM Branch – An 11th Colour-Rail journey – 1964 – an interesting year
CHM Cheltenham Victory Club, Burlington House, Lypiatt Road, Cheltenham, United KingdomFor the first meeting of our 2024/25 season we welcome Paul Chancellor back to present the 11th iteration of his 'A Colour-Rail Journey. This will focus on 1964 - an interesting year. The gloom hanging over the country's railway system following publication of the report The Reshaping of Britain's Railways had yet to completely descend,…
SRY Branch – Railwayman – Man and Boy
SRY Woking Woking United Reform Church, White Rose Lane, Woking, United KingdomRailwayman - Man and Boy By Jim Lester who was a Passed Driver on steam who fired on Sir Winston Churchill's funeral train and drove the last steam trains from Waterloo.