Members’ Day and AGM 2024
Grand Station, Wolverhampton Sun Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomThe AGM part of the day will allow remote participation via Zoom. If attending remotely, you must pre-register with Zoom, using the link below. Brunel Suite, Grand Station, Sun Street,…
Nothing Stays the Same – A tour of Railway Works, by Mike Corbett
NHN Northampton Weston Favell Parish Hall, Booth Lane South, Northampton, United KingdomJust Like the Old Days
MHD Cox Green Cox Green Community Centre, Highfield Lane, Cox Green, Maidenhead, United KingdomDes will present an historical photographic journey with images taken in recent years but which scenically could have been taken many years ago and he did
20 years of high speed railways in UK – David Hanger
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomThe 1968 Hixon Level Crossing Disaster
CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomIn 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…
The Narrow Gauge Railways of France
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomTony Bowles brings us another selection from The Restoration & Archiving Trust, this time comprising a mixture of colour and black & white photographs covering the narrow gauge lines in…
Archive and Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive and Library Open Day
Swindon Works and Railway Sites Walkaround Tour
SwindonWe plan to have a walkaround tour of the various remaining railway sites in Swindon. The tour will last approximately two hours and will be led by a former Swindon…
That Was The Year That Was – 1971
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA 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 KingdomRailway Observer editor Mike robinson will show some of his excellent pictures
Archive and Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive 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 KingdomJoint 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…