WFD Branch Zoom Meeting – ‘The History of the Severn Valley Railway’, by Bernie Holland, 4th February 2025

Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United Kingdom

Bernie Holland takes us from Shrewsbury to Hartlebury and Kidderminster taking in the branch from Northwood to Woofferton. Black and white and colour images from the 1950s and 1960s along with some views of what remains in preservation between Bridgnorth and Kidderminster. Please note this is a virtual Zoom meeting, you will need to register via the…

Archive And Library Open Day

RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

Archive And Library Open Day

Milton Keynes Branch Zoom Meeting – ‘Colourful North Bucks’

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Join us for our second meeting of the year on Zoom – Clive Pepper will take us on a look back over the last forty years at some of the railway traffic and operations in North Bucks. Particular emphasis will be on the wide variety of colourful liveries seen on both passenger and freight workings…

Building new steam locomotives in Sheffield

SFD Sheffield Farm Road Sports & Social Club Farm Road, Sheffield, United Kingdom

In a corner of Sheffield two new steam locomotives are being built – find out all about them in this, our first in-person meeting of 2025 – which is Sheffield branch’s 75th anniversary. Chris Jones brings us up to date with the project to build a British Railways Standard “Clan” Class Steam locomotive (72010 “Hengist”)…

The Last Decade at Hitchin

St Marks Church Hall, Hitchin SG5 1UR St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Richard Allen. In the presenter's own words: I will be presenting Part 2 of recent goings-on at Hitchin, covering the last 11 years or so, where I have tried to record (work commitments, Covid-19 etc permitting!) as much as possible of the happenings on the local…