Events
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40 years on the footplate
SWL Radyr, Cardiff Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, United KingdomLee Davies started working on the railway after spending 12 months on a Youth Training Scheme (YTS) and just two months in a “proper job”. Four decades later, he’s still there. After all, in the words of Ellesmere Port driver F. A. Jones, “Why work when you can drive trains for a living?” On Wednesday…
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Scottish Branch, Haymarket – 35mm Gricing 1964-1972
SCT Edinburgh Scots Guards Club, 2 Clifton Terrace,, Edinburgh, United KingdomThis will be the first Scottish Branch meeting in September for several years. The Railway Observer Managing Editor Mike Robinson will make a welcome return when he tells us, through his photography, about his gricing days in the UK, plus a few visits to northern Europe. 1971 Open Day at Haymarket Depot (image by Callum…
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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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Thames Valley Branch – That was the year that was – 1962
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomGeoff was born in Sheffield in 1949, into a railway-mad family, starting his railway enthusiasm at the age of around 18 months. After some early attempts with the family Box Brownie camera in the 1950s, he was given his first ‘proper’ camera for his thirteenth birthday in March 1962, this eventually leading to his career…
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Humberside Branch – Lincolnshire Joint Line and its Branches
HSD Hull The Highway, Willerby Road, Hull, United Kingdompresented by Mike Wedgewood
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Solent Branch: Rail Roving Scotland
SOE Eastleigh Junction Church (formerly Eastleigh Railway Institute), 2 Romsey Road, Eastleigh, United Kingdom£4 -
Archive And Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive And Library Open Day
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NEA – Railways of North Yorkshire – Part 2
NEA Darlington Darlington Cricket Club, South Terrace, Darlington, United KingdomRichard Barber returns to present the second part of his Railways of North Yorkshire series
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West Riding – My Visits in the UK – North East South West
WRD Shipley Saltaire Methodist Church, Saltaire Road, Shipley, United KingdomPresented by Chris Webster
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Cheltenham – Ashchurch to Malvern
CHM Cheltenham Victory Club, Burlington House, Lypiatt Road, Cheltenham, United KingdomLocal railway historian Ian Boskett gets our 2026/27 season off to a flying start with a presentation on the long lost Ashchurch to Malvern line. There are a few places where evidence of the line still exists.
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Surrey Branch – September 2026
SRY Woking Woking United Reform Church, White Rose Lane, Woking, United KingdomSpeaker To Be Confirmed
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HS2 Construction – From the Air
Cheylesmore Community Centre, Poitiers Road, Coventry 5JX Poitiers Road, Cheylesmore,, CoventryOur speaker, Richard Clifford, interested observer of HS2 (who owns a drone !) will give us a detailed presentation of this ongoing project.