A personal view of Steam on the Great Little Railways of Wales in the present century. Railways featured include the Welsh Highland, Festiniog, Talyllyn, Corris, Vale of Rheidol and Welshpool & Llanfair. For this virtual event, you will require a ticket. Free for RCTS members, but a £2.00 donation will be requested at the checkout.…
A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Stephen Gay. Travelling from Frickley to Finningly, Mexborough to Moorends and Bentley, Bessacarr to Bawtry. This is a railway journey which criss-crosses the Doncaster borough. Using Stephen’s slides taken over the last 40 years, the presentation will also look at waterways and historic buildings. We will…
On Wednesday 1st October Ian Reese will be leading a walk along the west bank of the River Usk and into the Pillgwenlly area of Newport to show us the almost entirely disappeared railway scene of years gone by. There were many railway lines crowding the west bank, bringing coal down from the valleys for…
Geoff Grant, Stakeholder Manager for West Midlands Trains, gives an overview of the key priorities facing the company in terms of their fleet, customer experience, accessibility and innovation.
Kit Spackman, who was the Tilt System Development Engineer on the APT-E programme, will explain the fascinating story of the whole APT Programme.
Archive And Library Open Day Cancelled due to us STILL awaiting completion of the interior works by GTR.
IAN CROWDER - “The Forgotten Standard”. Ian Crowder is Marketing Director of Toddington Standard Locomotive Ltd (TSLL), owners of Standard Class 4 2-6-0 No. 76077 and which is nearing the end of its restoration for use on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway. In this two-part lavishly-illustrated presentation, he firstly describes the development of the Standard…
A talk by Andrew Gainsbury with photography by Jeremy Segrott
Archive And Library Open Day Cancelled due to us STILL awaiting completion of the interior works by GTR.
Our original speaker, Norman Turnbull, has had to withdraw for health reasons but, in his place, we are delighted to welcome Mike Robinson, a Society Trustee and Managing Editor of The Railway Observer, who will be presenting a selection of his wonderful images, depicting Scotland's railways over several decades.
Society Secretary Richard Morris visits us to look at the operations of the InterCity 125, or High Speed Train, from the point of view of the enthusiast. Expect lots of variety of liveries and locations in Richard's new presentation.
