Archive And Library Open Day – CANCELLED

RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

Archive And Library Open Day - Cancelled Unfortunately GTR have still not completed interior remedial works at the Stationmaster’s House.  We are therefore unable to open the Archive & Library.

Cardiff Central Station and Valley Lines Observation

Cardiff Station Central Square,, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

For those interested we are intending to travel on a number of Branches in the afternoon using a " Explore Cardiff and the Valleys Ticket". Meet on platform 3 at 13:00 near the steps up from the subway.

WFD Branch – ‘Through Kirton Tunnel Part 1’, A railway journey from Sheffield Victoria to Kirton Lindsey, by Stephen Gay, 2nd September 2025

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

We welcome back the ever-popular Stephen Gay for another visit and more excellent photography, this time with a journey from Sheffield Victoria to Kirton Lindsey, doubtless with some poetic interludes! Please note this is a physical meeting, doors open from 18:30 for 19:00 commencement of proceedings. Please note also that there is no meeting in August as we…

CHR Test Meeting

This is a test meeting for Chichester Branch members by invitation only

£11

Milton Keynes Branch Meeting – ’40 Years of Deltic Preservation’

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

Murray Brown, former editor of ‘Rail Enthusiast’ and ‘Rail’ magazines and Chairman of the Deltic Preservation Society, gives a talk on the highs and lows of looking after these iconic locomotives.

Archive And Library Open Day – CANCELLED

RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

Archive And Library Open Day - CANCELLED Cancelled due to the interior works by Govia Thameslink Railway's contractors still being incomplete.

The Midland Main Line – Bedford to St Pancras

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

A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation, from the Peter Bland Collection, by Bryan Cross. A digital presentation of images mostly scanned directly from the negatives of Peter Bland & Harold Clements. We will travel along the ex-Midland Main Line, Bedford to St Pancras & Moorgate. Looking at the early history, aided by maps…

The Life and Times of Edward Thompson – Simon Martin

EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

"I have much to do, gentlemen, and little time in which to do it". These words are attributed to Edward Thompson and have been taken in the past as meaning little time in which to enact change, specifically to the work of his predecessor, Sir Nigel Gresley. How far was this true, was the question…