In Edinburgh: “Dark Doings at Low Level” by Jim Summers
SCT Edinburgh Scots Guards Club, 2 Clifton Terrace,, Edinburgh, United KingdomAnother 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…
RCTS WEN Branch Meeting and AGM: Alan Hopkins South African and Zimbabwe Steam in the 1980s
WEN Exeter [Mint Methodist Church] Fore Street, Exeter, United KingdomFollowing 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.
Greenfinch Hall,Greenfinch Avenue Ipswich IP2 0SQ
Euston to Carlisle late fifties early sixties photos – preceded by Branch AGM – David Cross
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomDavid will entertain us with a selection of his famous father's slides (Derek Cross)
North from Kings Cross – Photos from the RCTS Archive
St Marks Church Hall, Hitchin SG5 1UR St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, HertfordshireA 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…
“Appalachian Mountain Wanderings” by Tony Field
CBR Fulbourn, Cambridge The Swifts, Haggis Gap, Fulbourn, Cambridge, United KingdomPassage 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
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomA 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…
Archive And Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive And Library Open Day
Branch AGM
SOE Eastleigh Junction Church (formerly Eastleigh Railway Institute), 2 Romsey Road, Eastleigh, United KingdomChemin de fer du Provence
SOE Eastleigh Junction Church (formerly Eastleigh Railway Institute), 2 Romsey Road, Eastleigh, United Kingdom
The Dick Sansbury Collection
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…
North East Branch – The Photography of Eric Wilson
NEA Darlington Darlington Cricket Club, South Terrace, Darlington, United KingdomDavid Dunn brings us some images from the photographic collection of Eric Wilson