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  • Archive And Library Open Day – CANCELLED

    RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

    Network Rail and Govia Thameslink (GTR) have now undertaken additional works which, we hope, will cure the damp problems at the Stationmaster’s House.  GTR’s contractors are rectifying the damp areas internally so we are moving some shelving and dust covering all other shelves while that work is undertaken.  It is not therefore practical ot open…

  • Railway Advertising & Posters – Michael Willmot

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

    From the earliest days of rail travel, poster advertising was used to encourage people to take the train.  Through the artwork of, and captions on, such posters we can catch a glimpse of not just the advances in engineering and in design, but also the contemporary social concerns addressed in the advertising slogans.  But if…

  • Featured RCTS Windsor & Maidenhead Branch Meetings

    Edward Thompson, Wartime CME

    MHD Cox Green Cox Green Community Centre, Highfield Lane, Cox Green, Maidenhead, United Kingdom
    Hybrid Event

    The class act of Nigel Gresley to follow – how did Thompson take over and survive? Further to previous information, this meeting will now be available to join on Zoom as well at Cox Green

    £2

  • The North Eastern Railway from Stockton and Darlington to the ECML

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

    Physical meeting at Shenfield Parish Hall which will also be available on Zoom as a Hybrid Meeting. The history of the NER was made-up of several earlier and smaller individual railways. The Tanfield Railway, originally a wagonway dating from as early as 1725, the iconic Stockton and Darlington Railway, the Clarence Railway, Stanhope & Tyne…

  • With Lance King in Ireland 1958-1963

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

    Leslie McAllister offers a first selection of colour photographs taken by the late Lance King in the Republic of Ireland in the last years of steam. Lance was a skilled photographer and left a fine record of steam in the Dublin area and on the fondly remembered branches such as Kenmare, Loughrea, Ballaghadereen, Edenderry, Tullow,…

  • Observation Day Swindon Station

    Swindon Station

    Come and join Brian Arman, Stewart Jolly, and hopefully Arthur Turner for a day of observing the variety of freight and passenger trains to be sen at Swindon Station.

  • Archive And Library Open Day – CANCELLED

    RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

    Network Rail and Govia Thameslink (GTR) have now undertaken additional works which, we hope, will cure the damp problems at the Stationmaster’s House.  GTR’s contractors are rectifying the damp areas internally so we are moving some shelving and dust covering all other shelves while that work is undertaken.  It is not therefore practical ot open…

  • That Was The Year That Was 1972

    HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Geoff Plumb. Geoff Plumb returns with another of his popular “That Was the Year That Was” series of presentations. With his usual excellent standard of railway photography, this time it’s the turn of 1972 and we can expect the presentation to include more of Geoff’s many…