Events
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Bristol Meeting – ‘The Bill Potter Collection. A Classic Rail Archive 1938 – 1988’.
BTL North Filton St Teresa’s Church Hall, 71 Gloucester Road, North Filton, United KingdomSteam locomotive driver & fireman Chris Smith, presents a slide show from his collection featuring the high quality railway photographs of Bill Potter. The show focuses on Steam and Diesel Hydraulic traction.
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WEN Branch Meeting : Steve Montgomery : The Dave Nicholas collection
WEN Exeter [Mint Methodist Church] Fore Street, Exeter, United KingdomSteve Montgomery of Exerail fame will be giving a presentation of colour and black/white images captured by Dave Nicholas when living in the Bristol Area. Mainly steam and with extensive records to back up the narrative it promises to be an evening of nostalgia of a by-gone era from an excellent photographer
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Archive And Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive And Library Open Day
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Midland Main Line miscellany – Phil Lyndsey
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomPhil Lindsey takes us on a journey along the Midland Main Line from St Pancras to Ratcliffe on Soar, with the main focus being the Northamptonshire and Leicestershire sections. More details to follow
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Barry Coward – A talk on British Transport Films illustrated with excerpts from BTF titles.
SFD Sheffield Farm Road Sports & Social Club Farm Road, Sheffield, United Kingdom -
The Vintage Trains Story – To a Train Operating Company
HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by Mike Corbett. Details to follow. Doors open 13:30 for 14:00 start.
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“The Soham Disaster” by Richard Munns
CBR Fulbourn, Cambridge The Swifts, Haggis Gap, Fulbourn, Cambridge, United KingdomFollowing his highly successful talk on the railways of March in last year's programme, local railway historian Richard Munns pays another very welcome visit to the Branch to take us trough the infamous accident at Soham on June 2nd 1944.
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Westward Bound – a Selection of Photographs from the Society’s Photographic Archive
CSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomDavid Jackman will make a photographic journey through the last hundred years of steam, diesel and electric traction starting at Paddington and heading west using photographs from the society's photographic archive
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South Wales Transformation
SOE Eastleigh Junction Church (formerly Eastleigh Railway Institute), 2 Romsey Road, Eastleigh, United Kingdom£3 -
NEA Branch – Coal Traffic and Branch Lines in the North East
NEA Darlington Darlington Cricket Club, South Terrace, Darlington, United KingdomPresented by Malcolm Paul
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CHM Branch – Branch Annual Business Meeting and Members Entertain
CHM Cheltenham Victory Club, Burlington House, Lypiatt Road, Cheltenham, United KingdomTime to review the past year and select the committee to take us into the next season. We'll try and keep the business bit brief so we can spend more time enjoying the fruits of our members research and image captures.