• My Favourite Moments 1986 to 2019

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

    Steve Rickett, Branch Treasurer and regular contributor to Right Tracks, the Branch Newsletter will present a series of images celebrating more than 40 years of following and photographing trains across Great Britain   Steve's image of 710269 working 2J39 10:54 Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside at Barking on 20 May 2023 during a branch observation…

  • Farnham & District MRC Exhibition

    Alderwood Leisure Centre, Tongham Road, Aldershot, GU12 4AS Alderwood Leisure Centre, Tongham Road, Aldershot,, United Kingdom

    Surrey Branch will be attending the Farnham & District MRC Exhibition, with our sales stand, at Alderwood Leisure Centre, Tongham Road, Aldershot, GU12 4AS. Assistance with manning the stand would be appreciated.

  • Archive and Library Open Day

    RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

    Archive and Library Open Day

  • Railways in the 1970’s

    WEN Exeter [Mint Methodist Church] Fore Street, Exeter, United Kingdom

    For the first meeting of the 2023/24 programme, David Hunt, will provide an evening of nostalgia which will cover the railways of the UK in the corporate rail blue era of the 1970s with its variety of loco classes and variety of freight, the majority of which is long gone. It will be an entertaining…

  • Farnham & District MRC Exhibition

    Alderwood Leisure Centre, Tongham Road, Aldershot, GU12 4AS Alderwood Leisure Centre, Tongham Road, Aldershot,, United Kingdom

    Surrey Branch will be attending the Farnham & District MRC Exhibition, with our sales stand, at Alderwood Leisure Centre, Tongham Road, Aldershot, GU12 4AS. Assistance with manning the stand would be appreciated.

  • The LMS Patriot Project

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

    The LMS-Patriot Project - Our aims and progress to date The LMS-Patriot is building a working Patriot class steam locomotive as a National Memorial Engine, recreating a railway heritage and Remembrance link established after the Great War and lost in the 1960s. Inspired by the Great War Centenaries of recent years - Armistice Day and…

  • British Rail in the early 1980s – The Swansong of Corporate Identity

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

    Mervyn joined British Rail after university in September 1973 as a Traffic Management Trainee based in the Doncaster Divisional Management Office. His first two roles after training were Traffic Assistant at Shirebrook and then shift manager of freight operations on Tees-side based in Tees Yard. He moved south in 1979, becoming Area Passenger and Parcels…

  • WW1 & WW2 Cross Channel Train Ferries and Associated Railways

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

    The presentation will initially look at how Cross Channel Train Ferries were first introduced during WW1 to move Railway Equipment to France. We will the look at the use in WW2 following commercial introduction of the Harwich Zeebrugge  and Dover Calais Train Ferries between the wars. There will also be coverage of British railway activity…

  • Archive and Library Open Day

    RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

    Archive and Library Open Day