The Vintage Trains Story – Mike Corbett
Cheylesmore Community Centre, Poitiers Road, Coventry 5JX Poitiers Road, Cheylesmore,, CoventryAs a former Works Manager at Wolverton with a fifty-year career history with many years as a senior engineering manager and director within the rail industry. In retirement Mike is now a volunteer for the Vintage Trains Charitable Trust in Tyseley, Birmingham. This year he has undertaken ''The Vintage Trains Story - the rise to…
Northampton Castle Station in Camera by Richard Deacon, Northampton Branch Meeting
NHN Northampton - Weston Favell Weston Favell Parish Hall, Booth Lane South, Northampton, United Kingdom
Railways Remembered – Cheshire and North Wales
ESX Shenfield Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, United KingdomRemote Speaker Physical meeting at Shenfield Parish Hall which will also be available on Zoom as a Hybrid Meeting. Using material from Online Transport Archive, Charles will show a selection of colour images from this area. The material is drawn from a number of key collections in the Archive, most notably John McCann, Charles Firminger…
Archive And Library Open Day – CANCELLED
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive And Library Open Day Cancelled due to us STILL awaiting completion of the interior works by GTR.
TVY Branch – The Mangotsfield Triangle – Lost Midland Railway routes to Bristol and Bath
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomThe talk describes the long and complex story of railways around Mangotsfield where the first railway transporting coal arrived in 1832. We then follow the history with various railway companies involving both standard and broad gauge, to closure and the establishment of the Bristol and Bath Railway Path which was the first project by Sustrans.
Forty Years on the footplate
HSD Hull The Highway, Willerby Road, Hull, United Kingdom
The Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway
CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomRichard Coghlan presents a picture show of the line from Didcot to Southampton via Winchester Chesil, closed between 1960 & 1962. An array of ‘then & now’; some dates; pictures from his collection, and how the collection started. The image illustrates the bay platform at Newbury.
RCTS Society Members Weekend
NEA Darlington Darlington Cricket Club, South Terrace, Darlington, United KingdomNorth East Branch is hosting the Annual Members Weekend from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th October. Base camp for the weekend is the Bannatyne Hotel in Darlington. For further information please see insert in the July 2025 RO, or go to the Members Area of the RCTS website.
North from Kings Cross – Images from the RCTS Archive
MHD Cox Green Cox Green Community Centre, Highfield Lane, Cox Green, Maidenhead, United KingdomA review over the years – steam, diesels and electrics, with the odd deviation along the way
The Spa Valley Railway
CSL Redhill Redhill Methodist Church, Gloucester Road, Redhill, United KingdomThe Spa Valley Railway is now well established as one of our nearest heritage railways, and today Brian Halford returns to tell us of its latest developments.
Memories of a Gorleston Spotter (part 2)
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Chris Wright. Details to follow. Doors open 13:30 for a 14:00 start.
A beginner’s introduction to Walschaerts Valve Gear – Robin Gibbons
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomThis is not as forbidding as it sounds and because of its nature, it lends itself to audience participation.