The Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway
CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomRichard Coghlan presents a picture show of the line from Didcot to Southampton via Winchester Chesil, closed between 1960 & 1962. An array of ‘then & now’; some dates; pictures…
RCTS Society Members Weekend
NEA Darlington Darlington Cricket Club, South Terrace, Darlington, United KingdomNorth East Branch is hosting the Annual Members Weekend from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th October. Base camp for the weekend is the Bannatyne Hotel in Darlington. For further information…
North from Kings Cross – Images from the RCTS Archive
MHD Cox Green Cox Green Community Centre, Highfield Lane, Cox Green, Maidenhead, United KingdomA review over the years – steam, diesels and electrics, with the odd deviation along the way
The Spa Valley Railway
CSL Redhill Redhill Methodist Church, Gloucester Road, Redhill, United KingdomThe Spa Valley Railway is now well established as one of our nearest heritage railways, and today Brian Halford returns to tell us of its latest developments.
Memories of a Gorleston Spotter (part 2)
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Chris Wright. Details to follow. Doors open 13:30 for a 14:00 start.
A beginner’s introduction to Walschaerts Valve Gear – Robin Gibbons
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomThis is not as forbidding as it sounds and because of its nature, it lends itself to audience participation.
WFD Branch – Potential Outside Visit, 23rd September 2025 – Postponed to 29th October 2025
https://maps.app.goo.gl/YbJUqoQUhmpxgNU28 Avanti West Coast Training Academy Tatton House, Crewe Business Park, Westmere Dr, Crewe CW1 6ZDApart from the revised date, the details for this visit are as before. A visit has been organised to the Avanti West Coast Training Academy in Crewe for Wednesday 29th…
“Freedom of Scotland 1961” Part 1 by John Sloane
Fulwood Lawn Tennis club Highgate Ave Preston PR2 8DY Highgate Ave, Preston, LancashireCardiff Model Railway Show
Sophia Gardens Sophia Gardens Cricket Ground, Cardiff, United KingdomMembers of the RCTS South Wales branch will be taking our preloved book stall to the 37th Cardiff Model Railway show, held this year over the first weekend in November…
Archive And Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive And Library Open Day
WFD Branch – ‘My Life on the Railways’, by Dennis Clarke, 4th November 2025
WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United Kingdom'My life on the railways, from Willesden and Wembley, to North Pole and Temple Mills.' This will be a presentation of how I got interested in the railways at a…
Archive And Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive And Library Open Day