• Archive & Library Open Day

    RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

    Archive & Library Open Day

  • WFD Branch – ‘Memories are Made of These!’, by Phil Darlaston, 1st October 2024

    WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United Kingdom

    'Memories are made of these!' - a kind of photographic reminiscence looking back over approx. 50 years at the big railway, main line steam, the maturing preservation scene and perhaps a little infrastructure and overseas thrown into the mix. Commence 19:00. Please note this is a physical meeting to be held at our usual venue at Beechen…

  • Scenes from the 1960s

    MCN Liverpool Haig House Social Club, Woolton Road, Garston, Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • Trains and Travel in Thailand

    our very own member David Bousfield has extensively travelled in this country and  will give his usual excellent presentation,not to be missed

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  • Work of the RAIB

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

    Simon Lomax, Principal Inspector of Rail Accidents at the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, joins us to explain the work of the RAIB.

  • Railways in the Cornish Landscape – part 2. by Stephen Gay

    SFD Sheffield Farm Road Sports & Social Club Farm Road, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Stephen makes a welcome return to the Sheffield branch, continuing his trip west on the Cornish Main Line, this time from Par to Penzance while also taking in the Cornish branch lines.  

  • Mandarin Madness – Solo Travels in China

    HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by David Longman. What do you do if you want to photograph steam in China but don’t speak the language, can’t afford a guide or an interpreter and dislike big groups? In a moment of ‘Mandarin Madness’ you decide to go it alone of course! Dave Longman…

  • From West to East and Back Again

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

    On 9th October 2024, Steve Rickett will take us on a journey from Pembrokeshire to Essex, avoiding London, using secondary routes where possible and going down branch line rabbit holes and visiting lesser-known freight lines. After a relocation to Lincolnshire, we will journey westwards to North Wales, across the Pennines and with detours via some…