Events
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SOE Eastleigh Junction Church (formerly Eastleigh Railway Institute), 2 Romsey Road, Eastleigh, United KingdomIndoor Event
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RCTS Members Social Weekend – Bury
BuryRCTS National Event or Visit - in personWe are delighted to announce that a Members Social Weekend will take place based in Bury, Lancashire on the weekend of 23rd-25th October 2026. More details to follow
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Archive And Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomLibrary & Archive Open DaysArchive And Library Open Day
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Timetable Planning Oversimplified
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by Matthew Alden-Farrow. Details to follow. Doors open 13:30 for 14:00 start.
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CSL Branch: The Route of the ‘Conti’, from Birkenhead to Margate, then and now
CSL Redhill Redhill Methodist Church, Gloucester Road, Redhill, United KingdomKen Owen will describe and illustrate the route of the Conti - the through train that linked Birkenhead and Margate - then and now. An opportunity to look at the railway scene along the former Great Western mainline from Birkenhead to Banbury, and then across country via Oxford, Reading and Redhill to the South Coast…
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27th October ‘Belgium – Trains, Trams and Beer’ – Peter Holden
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomPeter Holden will talk to us about the pleasures of travel in Belgium
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Chichester Branch – The Life of BR Class 4 tank No 80150 and it’s restoration
CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomUnwanted by BR, passed over by preservationists and narrowly evading the cutting torch, 80150 is steam's great survivor and is battling its way back from the brink with a great story to tell.
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National Zoom Meeting – ‘World Steam’ Tour of Java, 1973
FeaturedVirtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomVirtual EventRCTS National Meeting - virtualGeoff Plumb participated in the ‘World Steam’ tour to Java, plus a bit of Singapore and Malaysia, which took place over three weeks in July and August 1973. This tour covered most of the island, featuring a wealth of Mallets of various sizes, steam tram engines, 0-4-0 and 2-4-0 tender engines, 2-12-2Ts and some sugar…
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WFD Branch Meeting – ‘My Travels in 2024’, by Harry Nethercoat, 3rd November 2026
WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United KingdomIndoor EventThere is a change of speaker for our November meeting - Jeremy Harrison is no longer available for that date and our own Harry Nethercoat has stepped up to the plate to present 'My Travels in 2024'. This will be his first full-length presentation for his home branch, though he has already done quite a…
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Rail Reflections in the Early Digital Years, Jul 2006 to Dec 2010 by Doug Birmingham
MCN Liverpool Cheshire Lines Sports & Recreation Club, Southmead Road, Allerton, Liverpool, United KingdomIndoor Event -
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‘Eurostar – 30 Years & Counting’
MKY Milton Keynes Network Rail - The Quadrant: MK, Elder Gate, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United KingdomIndoor EventA presentation by Chris McCandless-Stone, Fleet Performance Manager, Eurostar. A look at what 30 years of Eurostar has done for connecting the UK with Mainland Europe before embarking on a high-speed journey into the future.