Archive and Library Open Day

RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

Archive and Library Open Day

Branch AGM, followed by ‘The Story of the Travelling Post Office’ by Roland Gillott

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

The Watford Branch AGM will commence at 18:45 (please note this is earlier than our usual start time) and we hope to conclude that by 19:00. This will be followed by Roland Gillott's presentation on 'The Story of the Travelling Post Office'. This includes the inception of the TPO service in 1838 and its continuation…

London Midland Region – Review of the 1950s/1960s

MCN Liverpool Haig House Social Club, Woolton Road, Garston, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Please note that this is a change of subject and speaker because the intended speaker, Paul Shackcloth, is unwell.

LMS Patriot project

royal station hotel carnforth

colin hall will give a sesssion on how this remarkeable project is progressing

Archive and Library Open Day

RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

Archive and Library Open Day

Great Central Railway – Re-Unification

MKY Milton Keynes Network Rail - The Quadrant: MK, Elder Gate, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

Tom Ingall from the Great Central Railway gives a talk on possibly the UK’s biggest heritage railway project, the re-unification of the two halves of the preserved section of the Great Central and the connection with Network Rail.

‘East Coast Main Line part 2 – North From York’ by Stephen Gay

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

Following the East Coast Main Line North from York to Edinburgh Waverly this 205 mile journey calls off at the principal stations en-route. The show uses Stephen's recently taken slides complemented with a sprinkling of his own poetry.

“An Evening with Father’s Slides” by David Cross

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

David presents his father's (Derek Cross) magnificent photographs in a slide show of mainly steam but with some pictures of early diesels.  The West Coast route from London to Carlisle will be followed, albeit with a bias to photographs in the Northern Fells. In addition there are some images from North London, North Wales and…