The Seaton Tramway
2024-12-18 19:15 - 21:30 (Europe/London)
The talk comprises of an overview of the tramway and trams and a trip up the line.

15 in 15 & Festive Buffet
2024-12-18 19:30 - 22:00 | SOE Eastleigh, Junction Church (formerly Eastleigh Railway Institute), 2 Romsey Road, Eastleigh, SO50 9FE, United Kingdom
Members are encouraged to show 15 images in 15 minutes.

North East Branch - South of the Himalayas
2024-12-19 19:00 - 21:30 | NEA Darlington, Darlington Cricket Club, South Terrace, Darlington, DL1 5JD, United Kingdom
Barry Burns brings us steam in the Indian continent from the 1990s.

CHM Branch - Swindon works after WWII to the end of Steam
2024-12-19 19:00 - 22:00 | CHM Cheltenham, Victory Club, Burlington House, Lypiatt Road, Cheltenham, GL50 2SY, United Kingdom
Society President Canon Brian Arman returns with more history of God’s Wonderful Railway, this time looking at the post Hawksworth period into the British Railways nationalisation era.

Surrey Branch - Railway Preservation Society of Ireland
2024-12-19 19:15 - 21:30 | SRY Woking, Woking United Reform Church, White Rose Lane, Woking, GU22 7HA, United Kingdom
Surrey Branch December 2024 Meeting and social gathering.
Railway Preservation Society of Ireland
Preceeded by the Surrey Branch Annual General Meeting.

"Christmas Scenic Quiz" by John Holroyd
2024-12-19 19:30 - 21:30 | WRD Shipley, Saltaire Methodist Church, Saltaire Road, Shipley, BD18 3HJ, United Kingdom

Christmas Buffet & Members Evening
2024-12-20 19:30 - 22:00 | BTL North Filton, St Teresa’s Church Hall, 71 Gloucester Road, North Filton, BS34 7PL, United Kingdom
Presentation of short member’s programmes with a Christmas Buffet.

A Touch of Winter
2024-12-30 19:30 - 22:00 | Virtual Meeting, Virtual Meeting, United Kingdom
This presentation is a variety of images with a definite cold winter theme starting in the UK then moving through Europe, to Ukraine and on to China. If (as is likely based on recent years) we have missed out on a White Christmas, this will make up for it; and if perchance the weather is as it was for the title image, one of the benefits of a Zoom meeting is that you can attend without having to brave it!
For this virtual event, you will require a ticket. Free for RCTS members, but a £2.50 donation will be requested at the checkout. Non-member tickets are £2.50. (Or you can join the Society in the same transaction to take advantage of members’ benefits)
To receive information on coming National (and other) Zoom meetings, please join the RCTS National Zoom E-mail List (RCTS-National@groups.io) by visiting https://groups.io/g/RCTS-National , or by e-mail to RCTS-National+subscribe@groups.io.

Milton Keynes Branch Zoom Meeting - ‘The Ramblings of a Railwayman’
2025-01-02 19:30 - 21:00 | Virtual Meeting, Virtual Meeting, United Kingdom
For our first meeting of the year, please join us on Zoom for a presentation by career railwayman Geoff Burch. During ‘The Ramblings of a Railwayman’ Geoff talks about his first interest in railways as a train spotter and as a 15 year old straight from school starting his career as an engine cleaner, working in the boilersmith’s shop and eventually becoming a top-link fireman based at Guildford Motive Power Depot. This gave him a privileged opportunity to work with a diverse group of drivers and locomotives until the final day of steam on the Southern Region, Sunday 9th July 1967. Register via the Zoom link below to join.

Bristol - 'Steam in Cornwall' by SLS Librarian Gerry Nichols
2025-01-03 19:30 - 22:00 | BTL North Filton, St Teresa’s Church Hall, 71 Gloucester Road, North Filton, BS34 7PL, United Kingdom
SLS librarian Gerry Nichols presents ‘Steam in Cornwall’.

Archive & Library Open Day
2025-01-04 11:00 - 16:00 | RCTS Library, Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, KT22 7SQ, United Kingdom

WFD Branch Zoom Meeting - 'Railways at the Dawn of Nationalisation', by Robin Mathams, 7th January 2025
2025-01-07 19:00 - 21:30
A presentation of photographs from the Sutton Coldfield Railway Society’s Moseley Archive of over 2000 photographs taken by the late Percy Moseley between 1911 and the 1970s. This presentation will cover the years from 1946 to 1949 and will be made by Robin Mathams, joint archivist.
Please note this is a virtual Zoom meeting, you will need to register via the link below. You will be able to join the meeting from 18:45 with a 19:00 start of the presentation. There is no charge for the meeting, but donations, in units of £2.00, can be made via the organiser button below and this would be much appreciated.

Robert Pritchard - Out and about in the UK & Europe 2024 : Followed by the branch AGM
2025-01-08 19:00 - 21:30 | https://rcts.org.uk/event/robert-pritchard-out-and-about-in-the-uk-europe-2024-followed-by-the-branch-agm/
After Robert’s presentation stay online and have your say on how the branch is run.

Branch AGM followed by A South Wales Showcase
2025-01-08 19:00 - 22:00 | SWL Radyr, Cardiff, Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, CF15 8DF, United Kingdom
The Branch AGM will be followed by a medley of images from a number of members of the Railways in South Wales Facebook Group led by Jeremy Segrott, Branch Chairman

The glorious Steam railways of India
2025-01-08 19:30 - 21:30
we travel to India the huge asian country where John Sloane will give one of his super sessions

Archive And Library Open Day
2025-01-09 11:00 - 16:00, 2025-01-15 11:00 - 16:00 | RCTS Library, Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, KT22 7SQ, United Kingdom

USA in the 60s
2025-01-09 19:00 - 21:30 | PBR Peterborough, St Luke’s Church, Mayor's Walk, Peterborough, PE3 6EZ, United Kingdom
A slide show by Colin Greatrex
This meeting will also include the branch AGM.

Branch Quiz for the "Dick Dyson trophy"
2025-01-10 19:30 - 22:00 | Fulwood Lawn Tennis club Highgate Ave Preston PR2 8DY, Highgate Ave, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 8DY
Quiz master Martyn Hilbert

In Edinburgh: "Dark Doings at Low Level" by Jim Summers
2025-01-11 14:00 - 16:30 | SCT Edinburgh, Scots Guards Club, 2 Clifton Terrace,, Edinburgh, EH12 5DR, United Kingdom
Another welcome return by our friend Jim Summers who will be telling us about the construction and operation of the lines through Glasgow Central Low Level – one of which, between Rutherglen and Partick, now forms the core of the present-day Argyle Line.
The low level platforms seen in May 1981, just under two years after re-opening..
The adjacent, but abandoned, second island platform nowadays features in the popular Glasgow Central undercroft tour, run by Network Rail.

Note that this is a Saturday afternoon meeting.

RCTS WEN Branch Meeting and AGM: Alan Hopkins South African and Zimbabwe Steam in the 1980s
2025-01-11 19:00 - 21:30 | WEN Exeter [Mint Methodist Church], Fore Street, Exeter, EX4 3AT, United Kingdom
Following the AGM Alan Hopkins will be entertaining us with a talk about his visits to South Africa and Zimbabwe in search of steam during the 1980s. It promises to be a fascinating talk about the railways and the steam locos which kept the railways operating

My work in Control and my control of D6732 on the NNR by Alistair Barham.
2025-01-13 14:15 - 16:30 | Greenfinch Hall,Greenfinch Avenue Ipswich IP2 0SQ

Euston to Carlisle late fifties early sixties photos - preceded by Branch AGM - David Cross
2025-01-14 14:00 - 16:30 | EMD Nottingham, The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, NG1 4EZ, United Kingdom
David will entertain us with a selection of his famous father’s slides (Derek Cross)

North from Kings Cross - Photos from the RCTS Archive
2025-01-14 14:00 - 16:30 | St Marks Church Hall, Hitchin SG5 1UR, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 1UR
A Presentation by David Jackman for the Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch.
David Jackman will present a photographic review of the southern ECML as seen through the lens of the society’s photographic archive. This will feature both steam and diesel eras – not completely forgetting the electric era – with the odd deviation along the way.
In the photo Class B1 No. 61272 on the up ‘Butlins Holiday Express’ at Hitchin 2/7/60 (Courtney Haydon)
Please note that this will be at the new venue in Hitchin and will start at 14:00.
Doors open 13:30 for a 14:00 start.

"Appalachian Mountain Wanderings" by Tony Field
2025-01-14 19:30 - 22:00 | CBR Fulbourn, Cambridge, The Swifts, Haggis Gap, Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB21 5HD, United Kingdom
Passage through these mountains still provides a stern test even for modern traction. This video presentation shows a variety of such workings, all set in spectacular scenery.

Railways 1933-36, from the Sutton Coldfield Railway Society's Moseley collection
2025-01-14 19:30 - 22:00 | Virtual Meeting, Virtual Meeting, United Kingdom
A further presentation of photographs from the Sutton Coldfield Railway Society’s Moseley Archive of over 2000 photographs taken by the late Percy Moseley between 1911 and the 1970s. Following previous presentations of images from the 1940s and early 1950s, for this evening’s presentation we return to the pre-war era of the early 1930s, when many of the steam locos that were part of the spotting experience for many of us were only just appearing (or still in the future). It will be given by Robin Mathams, joint archivist for the SCRS.

Branch AGM
2025-01-15 18:30 - 19:30 | SOE Eastleigh, Junction Church (formerly Eastleigh Railway Institute), 2 Romsey Road, Eastleigh, SO50 9FE, United Kingdom

Chemin de fer du Provence
2025-01-15 19:30 - 22:00 | SOE Eastleigh, Junction Church (formerly Eastleigh Railway Institute), 2 Romsey Road, Eastleigh, SO50 9FE, United Kingdom

The Dick Sansbury Collection
2025-01-16 14:00 - 16:30
Dick was a Geography teacher and taught at Eastleigh and also at Aberystwyth University which is why this show mainly covers Hampshire and the Cambrian lines of the Western Region in the 1950s. There are also odd pictures taken around the western region and some on the London Midland Region, but virtually little on the eastern region. Whilst mainly steam, some modern traction is there as well, but of course not modern now. EE type 4. Warships and Hampshire and Hastings DEMUs appear as well. The original pioneer preserved narrow gauge railways of Wales also feature. The best pictures of local interest are men at work in Eastleigh works in the 1950s. Dick was a good friend of Eastleigh Shed master and well-known author and photographer Stephen Townroe so got into places not always available to the public like footplate rides and accident scenes. Most of the pictures were taken between 1950 and 1965.

North East Branch - The Photography of Eric Wilson
2025-01-16 19:00 - 21:30 | NEA Darlington, Darlington Cricket Club, South Terrace, Darlington, DL1 5JD, United Kingdom
David Dunn brings us some images from the photographic collection of Eric Wilson
