A 1968 Jet Search for Steam
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomThe introduction of “Pacesetter” fares for under-26-year-olds in 1968 made international air travel much more affordable, and Frank Stamford - our regular Australian attendee - took advantage of them to make a fifteen-week round the world trip in search of steam, visiting Indonesia, the British Isles, Western Europe (from Portugal to West Germany), and South…
Archive and Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive 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 KingdomThe 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 KingdomPlease note that this is a change of subject and speaker because the intended speaker, Paul Shackcloth, is unwell.
LMS Patriot project
royal station hotel carnforthcolin hall will give a sesssion on how this remarkeable project is progressing
Archive and Library Open Day
RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United KingdomArchive and Library Open Day
Great Central Railway – Re-Unification
MKY Milton Keynes Network Rail - The Quadrant: MK, Elder Gate, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United KingdomTom 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 KingdomFollowing 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.
Interrailing for the Older Crowd by Dave Hepper.
Greenfinch Hall,Greenfinch Avenue Ipswich IP2 0SQJohn Day “East Anglian Railways in Transition”.
SFD Sheffield Farm Road Sports & Social Club Farm Road, Sheffield, United KingdomFrom BR through Sectorisation to Privatisation - 1980s to date.
Deltics: 1965 to the present day – Richard Walsh
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom“An Evening with Father’s Slides” by David Cross
CBR Fulbourn, Cambridge The Swifts, Haggis Gap, Fulbourn, Cambridge, United KingdomDavid 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…