A visit to the nearby Nene Valley Railway, including a tour of the workshops, Wansford signal box etc Meet 11:00am at Wansford. It is essential to book your place for this visit - contact the branch secretary. Friends and family welcome.
After looking back a century, and then over the last decade, in our last two meetings, for this month's meeting we split the difference, and are taken back 55 years, to 1967, by excellent photographer (and Watford Branch chairman) Geoff Plumb. This was the penultimate year of regular standard gauge steam on British Railways, and…
Celebrating 152 years of railway history for the iconic Midland Railway roundhouse and the wider railway industry it supports to this day. GWR 1500 class 0-6-0PT shunting engine 1501, the sole survivor of its class, in steam and working the Barrow Hill shuttle trains from Roundhouse Halt up the Springwell branch line. Our thanks go…
On 2nd September we are pleased to welcome South Wales Branch Secretary, Peter Fortune to open our 2022/23 programme with a talk on the ‘Rhymney Railway’. Peter will be taking us on a journey down the line from it’s early days to the present time.