Steam Memories 2
WMD Coventry Cheylesmore Community Centre, Arundel/Poitiers Road, Coventry, United Kingdom“Walks with my Dog along Disused Railways” by Stephen Gay
NHN Northampton Weston Favell Parish Hall, Booth Lane South, Northampton, United KingdomAn unusual look at railways but should be very interesting
The Wrexham & Shropshire Railway
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomMerseyside, Cheshire & North Wales branch · Presenter: Geoff Plumb
Eastleigh from Railway Junction to Railway Centre
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomThe presentation will cover the development of Eastleigh from its initial location as a junction for the line to Gosport intended to serve Portsmouth to the present day. We will look at the establishment of the Railway Workshops and the Running Shed leading up to the present railway facilities.
Harwich for the Continent – The Rail Ferries
ESX Shenfield Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, United KingdomComing from Ipswich Chris has had a lifelong interest in all things Transport. He is a local historian, presenter and canal artist, and has been presenting for over 20 years. An ex seaman, Chris actually worked on most of the ships discussed within his presentation. Chris is the current chair of the trustees of the…
Southern Coaches – Part 1, The Maunsell Era
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomWhile locomotives - especially of the steam variety - took the glory, the coaches that they hauled were just as important. Mike King comes to tell of those introduced by the Southern Railway between the grouping of 1923 and the late 1930s, under the supervision of Richard Maunsell, its first Chief Mechanical Engineer.
East Coast Main Line – Kings Cross to York
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomStephen Gay will talk to us about the ECML through the years
Ninth Colour-Rail Journey
CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomThe presentation features passengers services across the country from the 1930s to the present day.
Office of Rail and Road
SRY Woking Woking United Reform Church, White Rose Lane, Woking, United KingdomSurrey Branch March Meeting
Jeff Mimnagh’s End of BR Steam
LNW Preston Fulwood Lawn Tennis Club, Watling Street Road, Preston, United KingdomA selection of images by the late Jeff Mimnagh covering the end of BR steam
Rail Operations Group
MHD Cox Green Cox Green Community Centre, Highfield Lane, Cox Green, Maidenhead, United KingdomNarrow Gauge Steam in Nepal and Pakistan
HTC Welwyn Garden City Ludwick Way Methodist Church, 149 Ludwick Way, Welwyn Garden City, United KingdomPresenter: Geoff Warren Over 6000 km of railway of gauges at or less than 2ft 6in were built in the Indian subcontinent. Compared to those in post-independence India, the lines in Nepal and Pakistan were less easy to reach and received fewer railway enthusiast visitors. But in the early 1980s, almost all traffic was still…