Surrey Branch – Great Victorian Engineers – Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Great Victorian Engineers - Isambard Kingdom Brunel By Chris Green
Great Victorian Engineers - Isambard Kingdom Brunel By Chris Green
Our speaker, Richard Clifford, interested observer of HS2 (who owns a drone !) will give us a detailed presentation of this ongoing project.
Maggie Simpson from the Rail Freight Group will be giving us an insight into the current issues facing the rail freight sector. Physical meeting at Shenfield Parish Hall. This talk will also be available on Zoom as a Hybrid
A presentation by John Douglas covering the rise, peak, and eventual decline of the vast network of industrial, standard-gauge, and narrow-gauge railways that served the ironstone quarries and blast furnaces of Northamptonshire. Please note change from previously advertised talk. This is a joint meeting with the Milton Keynes branch; the venue is Roade Village Hall.
Brian Sharpe will talk to us about the railways of the East Midlands
Archive And Library Open Day
The presentation covers the History of Railways in Southampton from the original three railway companies up to the early 1970's. Also associated with this is the growth and development of the Docks following the purchase of the docks by the LSWR and expansion under the ownership of the Southern Railway.
Join Harry Nethercoat from our Watford branch as he looks back on his journeys in 2025, stretching from Cornwall, up to Scotland - with stops in-between including; London, Cardiff, and closer to home. Expect all traction types on the mainline and in preservation
Archive And Library Open Day
A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by Stephen Gay. Details to follow. Doors open 13:30 for 14:00 start.
Hugh Driscoll recounts his time at Stratford Depot, also covering the origins and development of the depot and its subsequent decline and closure.
A double bill presentation of JSG photographs. 'JSG on Tour', railtours from the 1960's and 'JSG's Westerns', images of Class 52s between 1965 and 1975.