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  • The 1968 Hixon Level Crossing Disaster

    CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom

    In this dreadful accident a huge articulated transporter lorry, carrying a 120-ton transformer slowly over the automatic level crossing at Hixon, was hit by a 500-ton express train travelling at…

  • Archive and Library Open Day

    RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

    Archive and Library Open Day

  • That Was The Year That Was – 1971

    HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation. Presenter: Geoff Plumb Geoff returns with another of his popular TWTYTW series. ‘That Was the Year That Was – 1971’. A very…

  • 35mm gricing home and abroad

    FLL Carnforth Royal Station Hotel, Market Street, Carnforth, United Kingdom

    Railway Observer editor Mike robinson will show some of his excellent pictures

  • Archive and Library Open Day

    RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

    Archive and Library Open Day

  • The Vintage Trains Story – the rise to a Train Operating Company

    MKY Milton Keynes Network Rail - The Quadrant: MK, Elder Gate, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

    Joint meeting with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Mike Corbett gives a talk on the history and development of Birmingham based ‘Vintage Trains’ to Train Operating Company status, together with…