A London Brighton and South Coast Railway Miscellany, 1862-1923

CSL Redhill Redhill Methodist Church, Gloucester Road, Redhill, United Kingdom

A selection of images of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway from Victorian days to the grouping, now over a hundred years ago. Views of our local railway, but not as we know it today.    

Over The Mendips

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

The Somerset & Dorset Railway originally ran from Burnham-on-Sea to Wimborne, linking the Bristol and English Channels. In 1874 an extension opened from Evercreech Junction over the Mendip Hills to link with the Midland Railway at Bath which immediately became the main line. Passenger trains included through expresses from the Midlands and North to the…

HSD branch – Steam and Steel + AGM

HSD Scunthorpe The Black Beauty, Keddington Road, Scunthorpe, United Kingdom

Steam and Steel This meeting will also include the Branch AGM.

Railway Miscellany

SOE Eastleigh Junction Church (formerly Eastleigh Railway Institute), 2 Romsey Road, Eastleigh, United Kingdom

Tony Storey returns with more gems from his collection

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A Tribute to John Benson

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

Branch members with longer memories will fondly remember Johns Benson and Champion trading stories and photographs, comparing notes of their service in the military, always with camera in hand to record railway scenes wherever they were. John Benson was able, during service with the RAF, and later in life to travel to some countries not…

ERTMS

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

ERTMS - The European Rail Traffic Management System

AGM/Members Presentations

WRD Shipley Saltaire Methodist Church, Saltaire Road, Shipley, United Kingdom

Tunnel Vision – The History of the Metropolitan Railway

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

A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation. Presenter: Colin Brading. The story of the Metropolitan, the world’s first underground railway. Less than four miles long when it opened - to great acclaim - in January 1863, this ‘little acorn’ grew as a proud independent company to spread many branches and ‘the Met’ has shaped…