Name: British Steam in the Early 21st Century – a Personal View
Start: 2025-09-09T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-09T22:00:00+01:00
Location: CSL Croydon

August 2025
Britain’s Railways In The 1950s and 60s

Featured 28-Aug-2025 @ 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United Kingdom

Virtual Event

Black & White Photos from the Restoration & Archiving Trust Collection, presented by Mike Dodd. Every region is covered, including GWR, LMS, LNER and Southern ranging across Scotland, England and Wales. The images to be shown this evening come from a few of the negatives held at the archive, from the collections of five photographers:…
September 2025
Cardiff Central Station and Valley Lines Observation

02-Sep-2025 @ 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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

02-Sep-2025 @ 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

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

04-Sep-2025 @ 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM

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

£11
Milton Keynes Branch Meeting – ’40 Years of Deltic Preservation’

04-Sep-2025 @ 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

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.
Bristol Meeting – ‘South Wales Railways in the 21st Century’ by Stuart Warr.

05-Sep-2025 @ 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

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

Prolific and accomplished photographer Stuart Warr will be showing us a selection of his recent work.
Archive And Library Open Day – CANCELLED

06-Sep-2025 @ 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM

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.
Visit to Llandudno & the Great Orme Tramway

09-Sep-2025

Please note change of venue
The Midland Main Line – Bedford to St Pancras

09-Sep-2025 @ 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM

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

09-Sep-2025 @ 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM

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…
“The North Eastern Railway and the Beginnings of the East Coast Mainline” by Raymond Schofield

09-Sep-2025 @ 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

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

Our 2025/26 season opens with a much-anticipated visit from Raymond Schofield who will take us through the history of the East Coast Main Line. The North-East of England was at the forefront of railway growth, starting some 300 years ago with colliery lines delivering coal to staithes on the Tyne and Tees. Early passenger lines…
British Steam in the Early 21st Century – a Personal View

09-Sep-2025 @ 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

CSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United Kingdom

A look back at what I was able to photograph in the early years of this century, both on preserved railways and the mainline. (This is a replacement for David Cable's presentation, previously planned for this meeting, which has had to be postponed until 14th April 2026).

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