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  • Oliver Bulleid and 35028 Clan Line

    CSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United Kingdom

    Oliver Bulleid was one of Britain's last great steam locomotive engineers, and arguably one of the most controversial. Perhaps his best locos were the Merchant Navy class Pacifics - capable…

  • 40 years on the footplate

    SWL Radyr, Cardiff Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, United Kingdom

    Lee 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…

  • Scottish Branch, Haymarket – 35mm Gricing 1964-1972

    SCT Edinburgh Scots Guards Club, 2 Clifton Terrace,, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    This 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…

  • Archive And Library Open Day

    RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

    Archive And Library Open Day

  • Thames Valley Branch – That was the year that was – 1962

    TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United Kingdom

    Geoff 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…

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  • Archive And Library Open Day

    RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

    Archive And Library Open Day

  • NEA – Railways of North Yorkshire – Part 2

    NEA Darlington Darlington Cricket Club, South Terrace, Darlington, United Kingdom

    Richard Barber returns to present the second part of his Railways of North Yorkshire series  

  • Surrey Branch – September 2026

    SRY Woking Woking United Reform Church, White Rose Lane, Woking, United Kingdom

    Speaker To Be Confirmed

  • HS2 Construction – From the Air

    Cheylesmore Community Centre, Poitiers Road, Coventry 5JX Poitiers Road, Cheylesmore,, Coventry

    Our speaker, Richard Clifford, interested observer of HS2 (who owns a drone !) will give us a detailed presentation of this ongoing project.

  • All Things Freight (ESX)

    ESX Shenfield Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, United Kingdom

    Physical meeting at Shenfield Parish Hall. This talk will also be available on Zoom as a Hybrid