Middle East Travels
ESX Shenfield Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, United KingdomPhysical meeting at Shenfield Parish Hall which will also be available on Zoom as a Hybrid Meeting. Unlike Europe, the Middle East is a bit of a desert (no pun intended) for railways. However there are systems in some countries and Iain's presentation will cover three of these namely: Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Iain…
Archive And Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive And Library Open Day
HSD branch – AGM & Railways in a Cornish landscape Pt 1
HSD Hull The Highway, Willerby Road, Hull, United KingdomBranch AGM + Stephen Gay-“Railways in a Cornish landscape Pt 1”
North Staffordshire Railway (Part 4)
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomIn the fourth and final part of the North Staffordshire Railway talks series using digitised images from the collection of over 15,000 colour slides taken by the late Tommy Tomalin (who sadly passed away in 2021 at the grand old age of 96). Brian Sullivan continues by showing us views (with historical details) of the…
Metropolitan Lancashire & The West Riding
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomThe Late Gerald Dixon Collection The show covers areas of Lancashire from Preston southwards and much of the West Riding of Yorkshire with a brief incursion into North Yorkshire to York. It is all in colour and with the pictures almost exclusively depicting steam operations between 1962 & 1968.
Railways during the Second World War
MHD Cox Green Cox Green Community Centre, Highfield Lane, Cox Green, Maidenhead, United KingdomFrom the Sutton Coldfield Percy Moseley archive – scenes from 1937 to 1945 presented by the Joint Archivist
The Welshpool & Llanfair Railway – Roger Cragg
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomA look at the history and present operation of the Welshpool and Llanfair Railway
Memories of a Gorleston Spotter (Part 1)
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA presentation by Chris Wright for the Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch. From the presenter, in his own words: Chris Wright grew up in the 1950s and 60s in the Norfolk seaside town of Gorleston-on-Sea. His talk covers memories of early days spotting in Norfolk: on holidays with the family, and numerous school holiday…
Railways before the War – that’s the Great War! (Part 2)
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomA further presentation of Black and White images, drawn from the Ken Nunn collection and scanned from glass plates, illustrating railways in Britain before the Great War. Tonight's is the second of the three parts, featuring Southern and Western (the railways which would be amalgamated into the Southern, GWR and LMSR in 1923). The Ken…
“Steam and Diesel in the Northern Fells 2017-2023” by Ian Pilkington.
Fulwood Lawn Tennis club Highgate Ave Preston PR2 8DY Highgate Ave, Preston, LancashireArchive And Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive And Library Open Day
RCTS WEN Branch Meeting : Barry Jones Devolved Diesels
WEN Exeter [Mint Methodist Church] Fore Street, Exeter, United KingdomFor our February meeting we welcome back Barry Jones from Plymouth who will be entertaining with some more of his excellent photographs of Diesels, the evening will be a photographic tour around Wales and Scotland from the late 1970s to date. A digital show. ****Please note the change of date from the second Saturday…