Archive and Library Open Day

RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

Archive and Library Open Day

Great Central Railway – Re-Unification

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

Tom Ingall from the Great Central Railway gives a talk on possibly the UK’s biggest heritage railway project, the re-unification of the two halves of the preserved section of the Great Central and the connection with Network Rail.

‘East Coast Main Line part 2 – North From York’ by Stephen Gay

BTL North Filton St Teresa’s Church Hall, 71 Gloucester Road, North Filton, United Kingdom

Following the East Coast Main Line North from York to Edinburgh Waverly this 205 mile journey calls off at the principal stations en-route. The show uses Stephen's recently taken slides complemented with a sprinkling of his own poetry.

“An Evening with Father’s Slides” by David Cross

CBR Fulbourn, Cambridge The Swifts, Haggis Gap, Fulbourn, Cambridge, United Kingdom

David presents his father's (Derek Cross) magnificent photographs in a slide show of mainly steam but with some pictures of early diesels.  The West Coast route from London to Carlisle will be followed, albeit with a bias to photographs in the Northern Fells. In addition there are some images from North London, North Wales and…

Cambridge Area Railways – Yesterday & Today (Part 1)

HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United Kingdom

A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation. Presenter: David Scudamore In this presentation (Part 1 of a series) David will look in detail at all aspects of the Cambridge railway scene including its history, infrastructure, artefacts, trains & locomotives from the steam age to the present day. He will then take us north along…

Archive and Library Open Day

RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

Archive and Library Open Day

End of Southern Steam – 50 years on

PBR Peterborough St Luke’s Church, Mayor's Walk, Peterborough, United Kingdom

A look back at the end of steam on the Southern Region.