• Farnham & District MRC Exhibition

    Alderwood Leisure Centre, Tongham Road, Aldershot, GU12 4AS Alderwood Leisure Centre, Tongham Road, Aldershot,, United Kingdom

    Surrey Branch will be attending the Farnham & District MRC Exhibition, with our sales stand, at Alderwood Leisure Centre, Tongham Road, Aldershot, GU12 4AS. Assistance with manning the stand would be appreciated.

  • The LMS Patriot Project

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

    The LMS-Patriot Project - Our aims and progress to date The LMS-Patriot is building a working Patriot class steam locomotive as a National Memorial Engine, recreating a railway heritage and Remembrance link established after the Great War and lost in the 1960s. Inspired by the Great War Centenaries of recent years - Armistice Day and…

  • British Rail in the early 1980s – The Swansong of Corporate Identity

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

    Mervyn joined British Rail after university in September 1973 as a Traffic Management Trainee based in the Doncaster Divisional Management Office. His first two roles after training were Traffic Assistant at Shirebrook and then shift manager of freight operations on Tees-side based in Tees Yard. He moved south in 1979, becoming Area Passenger and Parcels…

  • WW1 & WW2 Cross Channel Train Ferries and Associated Railways

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

    The presentation will initially look at how Cross Channel Train Ferries were first introduced during WW1 to move Railway Equipment to France. We will the look at the use in WW2 following commercial introduction of the Harwich Zeebrugge  and Dover Calais Train Ferries between the wars. There will also be coverage of British railway activity…

  • Archive and Library Open Day

    RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

    Archive and Library Open Day

  • NEA Railway Roundabout + Branch AGM

    NEA Darlington Darlington Cricket Club, South Terrace, Darlington, United Kingdom

    19:00 start, but preceded by BRANCH AGM at 18.30 hrs Members Only at the AGM

  • 76077

    CHM Cheltenham Victory Club, Burlington House, Lypiatt Road, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

    Ian presents a fascinating look at the development of the Standard class 4 2-6-0s and 76077 in particular.  The engine spent almost all of its short life allocated to Sutton Oak depot and Ian explores the engine’s time there, before transferring to Springs Branch when the shed closed.  Six months later in December 1967, 76077…

  • South Western Railway Update

    SRY Woking Woking United Reform Church, White Rose Lane, Woking, United Kingdom

    South Western Railway Update This event will be held in person at Woking.

  • Currently Free

    NHN Northampton - Weston Favell Weston Favell Parish Hall, Booth Lane South, Northampton, United Kingdom

    An opportunity for Members to put a show together of a selection from photos taken by some of past Members in the Branch’s collection