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  • An Evening with Father’s Slides

    ESX Shenfield Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, United Kingdom

    The speaker tonight is David Cross lives locally in Brentwood. He is the son of Derek Cross a photographer who took many photographs and wrote a number of books in the Sixties and Seventies. David now holds his collection. This evening he will show slides of diesels at work on the four BR Regions in…

  • The Ivatt Diesel (10000) Replica Project by Tony Ellershaw

    NHN Roade Roade Village Hall, Bailey Brooks Lane, Roade, Northampton, United Kingdom

    Tony Ellershaw from the Ivatt Diesel Re-creation Project will give an insight into the project to build a replica of the LMS pioneer DE 10000. This is a joint meeting with the RCTS Milton Keynes Branch.

  • Recreating LMS 10000

    NHN Roade Roade Village Hall, Bailey Brooks Lane, Roade, Northampton, United Kingdom

    Joint meeting with the RCTS Northampton Branch. Tony Ellershaw from the Ivatt Diesel Recreation Society gives us an insight into the exciting project to build a replica of pioneer diesel electric locomotive No.10000.

  • By Diesel Hydraulics around the Western Region

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

    Joe Turner spent most of his career working for British Rail Western Region.  In this slide show Joe presents WR diesel hydraulics in their various liveries from the late 1950’s through to the later years of the 1970’s, and on into preservation.  As well as the well known Westerns, Warships, and Hymeks, Joe also shows…

  • “Steam from the Lineside”

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

    Steve Bigley will present an illustrated talk on steam charters

  • Change of date: Is it ‘A Clear Road Ahead for the Railways’

    WMD Coventry Cheylesmore Community Centre, Arundel/Poitiers Road, Coventry, United Kingdom

    Our local transport expert, Fraser Pithie, turns his attention to the national scene and asks the question "Is it "A Clear Road Ahead" for the Railways. Change of date: The meeting has been deferred by a week from its original date of 19th September owing to the Funeral of The late Queen Elizabeth taking place…