On and Off the Footplate in Retirement by Bill Davies
NHN Northampton Weston Favell Parish Hall, Booth Lane South, Northampton, United KingdomAlways welcome to our Branch, Bill Davies will, in his imitable way, will reminisce on his time on the railway.
‘The Wrexham & Shropshire Railway – a Photographic Retrospective
MHD Cox Green Cox Green Community Centre, Highfield Lane, Cox Green, Maidenhead, United KingdomGeoff Plumb returns to the branch to share his memories of the short lived Open Access service which operated between Wrexham and London Marylebone
Archive & Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomGreat Western Locomotives in Preservation
HTC Welwyn Garden City Ludwick Way Methodist Church, 149 Ludwick Way, Welwyn Garden City, United KingdomA Hitchin and Welwyn Garden City Presentation. 25th October at Welwyn Garden City. A presentation by Richard Morris. After the end of regular main line steam on BR, the preservation movement got to work and saved representative locomotives from most of the constituent companies. Some locos sadly didn’t make it, a few of those have…
Bulleid’s Pacifics – Colin Boocock
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomSix Decades of Steam Railway Photography
CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomI have been privileged to have volunteered on the Bluebell Railway during the early 1960s, and on the Watercress Line for the past fourteen years. This experience has given me good operational knowledge and provided opportunities for my photography, which I shall enjoy sharing with your members. My presentation will include pictures taken during the…
Branch AGM
SCT Edinburgh Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, United KingdomBRANCH 2021 AGM Followed By … Members' Slide/Digital Presentations
Full Circle – From Nationalisation To Great British Railways
SRY Woking Woking United Reform Church, White Rose Lane, Woking, United KingdomTrans-Pennine Traction in the Eighties
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomDerek Huntriss returns with another presentation of his excellent photography, this time from the 1980s, illustrating the railways of the North of England as they cross the Pennines to link the cities of Lancashire and Yorkshire. A show of two halves, in the first we see the every day scene of then modern traction (how…
‘Behind Closed Doors’ and ‘Underground Photos From the Past’, by Brian Hardy
WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United KingdomBRIAN HARDY: "Brian will give a two part presentation, 'Behind Closed Doors' (a look at disused parts of the Underground) and 'Underground Photos from the Past' (in black and white and colour)". Please note this is a change of subject matter from that originally advertised. 'Underground Photos From the Past' - Piccadilly Line and Metropolitan…
China
FLL Carnforth Royal Station Hotel, Market Street, Carnforth, United KingdomMembers’ Evening
MKY Milton Keynes Network Rail - The Quadrant: MK, Elder Gate, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United KingdomFor the November meeting, committee members Brian Ringer and Clive Pepper have very kindly stepped in to provide a programme for the evening. Brian will be sharing images from his slide collection on freight from days gone by, whilst Clive has devised a quiz on London stations, which should keep our brains exercised! This promises…