• The Vintage Trains Story – the rise to a Train Operating Company

    MKY Milton Keynes Network Rail - The Quadrant: MK, Elder Gate, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

    Joint meeting with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Mike Corbett gives a talk on the history and development of Birmingham based ‘Vintage Trains’ to Train Operating Company status, together with the Tyseley collection of steam and diesel locomotives, including the application of modern technology to heritage stock to enable main line operation.

  • ‘Those Were the Years Those Were’ Part 1, by Michael Reade (with apologies to Geoff Plumb!)

    WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United Kingdom

    Michael was able, during extensive business travel by rail and road in the U.K., to capture the rail scene in colour from 1960 to the end of mainline steam in 1968. Opportunities arose during lunchtimes and summer evenings in various industrial locations, and together with a London Midland Southern Area lineside permit used in various…

  • Archive and Library Open Day

    RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

    Archive and Library Open Day

  • South Wales Railways in the 21st Century

    Stuart Warr   Stuart is a well known photographer with many images published in the Railway Observer and in his won publication, My Journey.

  • Archive and Library Open Day

    RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

    Archive and Library Open Day

  • “Midsomer Norton – Rising from the Ashes” by John Baxter

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

    John Baxter is the Somerset & Dorset Railway Heritage Trust's Secretary.  He gives a 'warts and all' story of the trials and tribulations of starting a steam railway from scratch and how attempts to derail the project were dealt with to produce a small part of the former Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway for all…

  • 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 (both digital and conventional slide projectors will be available). Your chance to speak up and show off! As our long serving Chairman Chris Meredith and Secretary Peter Wilson have both decided to step down, it is essential that people come forward to join the committee…