• The life and times of Stanier 8F 48773

    FLL Carnforth Royal Station Hotel, Market Street, Carnforth, United Kingdom

    this loco had had a very illustrious career travelling to Egypt and Iran and featured in several films and is of course now preserved at the Severn Valley Railway,Ian chapman…

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  • Cambridge Area Railways, Yesterday & Today (Part 2)

    St Marks Church Hall, Hitchin SG5 1UR St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

    A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Dave Scudamore. Cambridge Area Railways, Yesterday & Today (Part 2) starts back at Cambridge and following another look around the station…

  • “Roger Harrison’s East Anglian Railways” by Dave Pearce

    CBR Fulbourn, Cambridge The Swifts, Haggis Gap, Fulbourn, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    For our final meeting of the 2024/25 season, we are delighted to welcome Dave Pearce who will be presenting ‘Roger Harrison’s East Anglian Railways’. Roger Harrison was an avid and…

  • Croydon & SL Branch AGM and Members’ Images

    CSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United Kingdom

    Our Annual General Meeting, to be followed by Members’ Images. Your chance to speak up and show off! Since our last AGM a year ago, at which both our long…

  • The Barry Dock and Railway Company

    SWL Radyr, Cardiff Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, United Kingdom

    Peter Fortune will provide an historical overview of the development and operation of this small but very successful railway company which transformed the coal trade in South wales for three…

  • North East Branch – The Railway over Stainmore Pass

    NEA Darlington Darlington Cricket Club, South Terrace, Darlington, United Kingdom

    Our last meeting of the 2024-25 season brings Chris Rowley to Darlington to present The Railway over the Stainmore Pass.

  • Archive And Library Open Day – CANCELLED

    RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

    Network Rail and Govia Thameslink (GTR) have now undertaken additional works which, we hope, will cure the damp problems at the Stationmaster’s House.  GTR’s contractors are rectifying the damp areas…

  • Railway Advertising & Posters – Michael Willmot

    Cheylesmore Community Centre, Poitiers Road, Coventry 5JX Poitiers Road, Cheylesmore,, Coventry

    From the earliest days of rail travel, poster advertising was used to encourage people to take the train.  Through the artwork of, and captions on, such posters we can catch…