• Midland Main Line Electrification – Matt Parkin

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

    Matt Parkin (Contractors Engineering Manager for the MMLE Electrification from Kettering to Wigston) from SPL Powerlines UK (SPL) will present a lecture about the challenges and innovation for new electrification schemes

  • 1125 & DEMU’s 0ver the Alps (Watercress Line)

    CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom

    The talk covers the development of the Diesel Electric Multiple Unit (DEMU) by the Southern Region, the link between them and the Mid Hants route (1957 to 1973), and the history of our (Watercress Line) own unit 1125 which worked some of the services on the last day of BR operation.

  • The Doncaster Rover

    HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    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…

  • SOUTH WALES BRANCH OUTDOOR EVENT – WALKING OLD RAILWAY LINES

    Potters Public House 22-24 Upper Dock St, Newport, Gwent, United Kingdom

    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…

  • Archive And Library Open Day – CANCELLED

    RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

    Archive And Library Open Day Cancelled due to us STILL awaiting completion of the interior works by GTR.

  • WFD Branch – ‘The Forgotten Standard’, by Ian Crowder, 7th October 2025

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

    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…

  • Transforming The Transport for Wales Fleet

    SWL Radyr, Cardiff Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, United Kingdom

    A talk by Andrew Gainsbury with photography by Jeremy Segrott