The Ian Allan Story
WMD Coventry Cheylesmore Community Centre, Arundel/Poitiers Road, Coventry, United KingdomThis rarely seen presentation will be given my Ian Allan's former publisher, Peter Waller. Having closed as a railway publisher some years ago Peter will tell us the whole story of this interesting publisher.
AGM and Members’ Contributions Afternoon
NHN Northampton - Weston Favell Weston Favell Parish Hall, Booth Lane South, Northampton, United KingdomThe GNR, Colwick to Basford – A trip around the back line
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomZoom meeting
Windsor & Maidenhead Branch AGM
MHD Cox Green Cox Green Community Centre, Highfield Lane, Cox Green, Maidenhead, United KingdomIt's time to have your say or even volunteer to assist the branch committee. Or alternatively give a short presentation. There will also be mince pies served after the formal meeting
AGM and Members Slides
ESX Shenfield Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, United KingdomThe meeting will be held at Shenfield Parish Hall but the formal AGM part of the evening will be held as a Hybrid meeting in order to be as inclusive as possible. Remote comments and contributions will, in general, only be possible via the Zoom 'Chat' function. Should you wish to remotely address the meeting…
Visit to Stafford
Please note the rearranged date because of rail strike scheduled for 13th December.
“The Gulf Oil Refinery Branch Line” Building a Railway in the 1960’s – Dick Watts preceded by Branch AGM
Richard Watts is a Chartered Civil Engineer (known professionally as Dick Watts) who, spent nearly 40 years in design and construction of railway Civil Engineering works, originally in the Chief Civil Engineer’s Office of British Railways Western Region at Paddington and latterly with consultants Scott Wilson & Kirkpatrick at Swindon. During the 1960s he spent…
Member’s Night
SOE Eastleigh Junction Church (formerly Eastleigh Railway Institute), 2 Romsey Road, Eastleigh, United KingdomA chance for members to take the floor for 15 minutes and show a range of slides/digital photographs from their own collections. A festive buffet will be provided by the Branch for those attending.
A Steam Enthusiast’s Paradise: Turkey 1978-1983
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomIf after the Christmas celebrations you're getting fed up with assum Meleagris gallopavo domesticus, come and enjoy a presentation of Turcorum ferri vapor equis, from excellent photographer Peter Robins. Turkey was a steam enthusiast's paradise between 1978 and 1983 as locos from more than twenty different classes were used over much of the country. The…
‘Railways and Me – Full Circle’ – by John Dyer.
VirtualThis will be a fairly wide-ranging personal perspective which might be described as ‘Bidston, Birkenhead and Beyond’. It starts with my interest in steam railways as a youth and railways generally, which was kindled locally on Merseyside where I was born and bred, and gradually expanding to other locations further afield. There are lots of…
24 Hours a Day on the Railways
FLL Carnforth Royal Station Hotel, Market Street, Carnforth, United Kingdom
Northampton Gateway
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomFor our first meeting of the year, George Collinson, Sponsor for Network Rail North West & Central Region gives an insight into the development of Northampton Gateway via our online ‘Zoom’ meeting.