Aspects of Southern Steam
CBR Fulbourn, Cambridge The Swifts, Haggis Gap, Fulbourn, Cambridge, United KingdomFor out last meeting of the 2022/23 season we are delighted to welcome Brian Benford for his talk on 'Aspects of Southern Steam'.
Sir Nigel Gresley: The LNER’s First C.M.E.
CSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomHaving previously given us a presentation on Edward Thompson, Gresley Society member Simon A. C. Martin returns to tell us about his predecessor, Sir Nigel Gresley, who he has been researching for a coming book. In the course of thirty years as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Northern Railway, and then after the grouping…
More From The Peter Bland Collection
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by Bryan Cross. Doors open 19:00.
Archive and Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive and Library Open Day
Railways Around Radyr
SWL Radyr, Cardiff Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, United KingdomA TfW Class 150 heads into Radyr past Radyr Weir in January 2023. The masts for the electrification of the Core Valley Network will finish Jeremy Segrott and Peter Fortune's  presentation, which will start with the opoening of the Taff Vale railway in 1840
Diesels in the Peak District – Phil Lockwood & Enid Vincent
SFD Sheffield Farm Road Sports & Social Club Farm Road, Sheffield, United KingdomPeak District photos and stories from Phil and Enid from the period 1975-2019. Also includes rail connected cement works and quarries Recommended Donations:-  RCTS Members £3, Guests £4
The John Wells Collection – Part 1 – 1952/ 1958 – Chris Berridge / Bryan Acford
WMD Coventry Cheylesmore Community Centre, Arundel/Poitiers Road, Coventry, United KingdomJohn Wells was born in 1935 and having been evacuated to Sandy, Bedfordshire, during the 2nd World War lived there for many years. After school he worked for a large insurance company so commuted daily to London, often carrying his camera. He held a lineside permit and photographed widely on the southern section of the ECML…
Railtours and Specials-The last forty years by John Day.
IPS Ipswich Greenfinch Church Hall, Greenfinch Avenue, Ipswich, United KingdomOwing to our booked speaker being unavailable John will present the above from his extensive collection.
The Great Eastern Railway: ‘Rarely other than Idiosynchratic’
ESX Shenfield Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, United KingdomFollowing the openings, in successive years, of the significant London main line stations at London Bridge, Euston and then Paddington, there followed a minor station in Mile End as the terminus of a railway planned to link the capital to Norwich via Colchester and Ipswich. Another early railway was to use the same terminus, but…
Archive and Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive and Library Open Day
North Staffordshire Railways (Part 2)
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomPart II of the North Staffs talk covers the line from Derby to Uttoxeter and then onwards to Stoke. We then continue to Kidsgrove via the Harecastle diversions, and then run via Alsager to Crewe.