Archive and Library Open Day

RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

Archive and Library Open Day

Railways Around Radyr

SWL Radyr, Cardiff Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, United Kingdom

A TfW Class 150 heads into Radyr past Radyr Weir in January 2023. The masts for the electrification of the Core Valley Network will finish Jeremy Segrott and Peter Fortune's  presentation, which will start with the opoening of the Taff Vale railway in 1840

Diesels in the Peak District – Phil Lockwood & Enid Vincent

SFD Sheffield Farm Road Sports & Social Club Farm Road, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Peak District photos and stories from Phil and Enid from the period 1975-2019. Also includes rail connected cement works and quarries Recommended Donations:-  RCTS Members £3, Guests £4

The John Wells Collection – Part 1 – 1952/ 1958 – Chris Berridge / Bryan Acford

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

John Wells was born in 1935 and having been evacuated to Sandy, Bedfordshire, during the 2nd World War lived there for many years. After school he worked for a large insurance company so commuted daily to London, often carrying his camera. He held a lineside permit and photographed widely on the southern section of the ECML…

The Great Eastern Railway: ‘Rarely other than Idiosynchratic’

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

Following the openings, in successive years, of the significant London main line stations at London Bridge, Euston and then Paddington, there followed a minor station in Mile End as the terminus of a railway planned to link the capital to Norwich via Colchester and Ipswich. Another early railway was to use the same terminus, but…

Archive and Library Open Day

RCTS Library Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, United Kingdom

Archive and Library Open Day

North Staffordshire Railways (Part 2)

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

Part II of the North Staffs talk covers the line from Derby to Uttoxeter and then onwards to Stoke.  We then continue to Kidsgrove via the Harecastle diversions, and then run via Alsager to Crewe.  

An Other Evening with Jim Sedgwick

NEA Darlington Darlington Cricket Club, South Terrace, Darlington, United Kingdom

(Change of speaker) Jim's photos are superb and often of unusual locations taken in the 1950's to early 1960's.