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  • Members’ Day and AGM 2024

    Grand Station, Wolverhampton Sun Street, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

    The AGM part of the day will allow remote participation via Zoom.  If attending remotely, you must pre-register with Zoom, using the link below. Brunel Suite, Grand Station,  Sun Street, Wolverhampton, WV10 0BF Saturday 20th April 2024  (doors open at 10.30 for 11:00 start) Programme for the day 11.00        Welcome and Refreshments Professional photographer Jack…

  • Featured RCTS Windsor & Maidenhead Branch Meetings

    Just Like the Old Days

    MHD Cox Green Cox Green Community Centre, Highfield Lane, Cox Green, Maidenhead, United Kingdom

    Des will present an historical photographic journey with images taken in recent years but which scenically could have been taken many years ago and he did

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  • The 1968 Hixon Level Crossing Disaster

    CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom

    In this dreadful accident a huge articulated transporter lorry, carrying a 120-ton transformer slowly over the automatic level crossing at Hixon, was hit by a 500-ton express train travelling at about 75mph.  It was truly a dramatic case of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object. The terrific impact not only destroyed the electric locomotive,…

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    The Narrow Gauge Railways of France

    Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United Kingdom

    Tony Bowles brings us another selection from The Restoration & Archiving Trust, this time comprising a mixture of colour and black & white photographs covering the narrow gauge lines in France that were still existed from the mid 1950s onwards, starting in Corsica & finishing on the Reseau Breton. For this virtual event, you will…

  • Archive and Library Open Day

    RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

    Archive and Library Open Day

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    Swindon Works and Railway Sites Walkaround Tour

    Swindon

    We plan to have a walkaround tour of the various remaining railway sites in Swindon. The tour will last approximately two hours and will be led by a former Swindon works employee and lifelong Swindon resident Martin Telling. During the walkaround tour we plan to visit the various workshops that still remain in the former works…

  • That Was The Year That Was – 1971

    HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation. Presenter: Geoff Plumb Geoff returns with another of his popular TWTYTW series. ‘That Was the Year That Was – 1971’. A very busy year covering railways in the UK, including British Railways, industrials, some North Wales narrow gauge, last of steam on London Transport, Humber paddle steamers,…

  • 35mm gricing home and abroad

    FLL Carnforth Royal Station Hotel, Market Street, Carnforth, United Kingdom

    Railway Observer editor Mike robinson will show some of his excellent pictures

  • Archive and Library Open Day

    RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

    Archive and Library Open Day