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Cliff makes a return visit to tell us about the trials and tribulations of being a railway manager
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Our first face to face meeting of the season welcomes Colin Hall from The LMS-Patriot Project to present on how they are recreating a Patriot Class locomotive from scratch, to be named The Unknown Warrior. |
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After a short AGM Brian Arman will present 'A Tribute to Roger Newman' showing Roger's 1960-65 UK pictures. |
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The content will be a montage of locomotives that have either been resident or visiting the GWSR since its inception in 1982 to the present day. There will also be surprise visitors other than locomotives that may please some of the viewers !? Please note - this is a Virtual Zoom Meeting - the registration… |
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NOEL THOMPSON From Here to There. 92233 assisted by 4137 entering the Severn Tunnel on a westbound freight In Part 1 "here" is Radyr, "there" is Crewe. Part 2 takes us from Newport to Weymouth via London (including a whistle stop tour of various London termini), thence via the LSW route to Weymouth including a…
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After our AGM Mick treats us to another selection of ColourRail slides plus some from his own collection. Recommended Donations:- RCTS Members £3, Guests £4 |
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A journey up the East Coast Route to Aberdeen, including the North East branches, ending at Elgin. The images are mostly steam with some early diesels.
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For our March meeting we welcome back John Medley with a selection of his 1980s slides. It promises to be an evening of nostalgia with blue and gray predominating, and long passed freight and passenger services stirring the memories, of a different world and a different way of life. It will be a great evenings…
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Society President Brian Arman presents from F W Hawksworth to the end of steam at Swindon Works. |
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We are delighted to welcome back railway historian and photographer David Scudamore on March 14th to give us Part 2 of his hugely popular "Cambridge Area Railways Yesterday and Today" talk.
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Branch member Chris Baldwin returns, this time with his memories of the last days of steam in and around the City of Gloucester.
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The Future National Railway Museum Anthony Coulls, Senior Curator of Rail Transport & Technology of the NRM in York will be talking about the museum's Vision 2025 and other updates to the museum’s activities. |
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Stephen entertained us with Part 1 in March 2022 and returns, by popular request, to complete the journey into Sheffield
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Having presented his excellent 'BR Steam' images last year, Allan Stewart returns with another top class presentation, this time depicting UK preserved steam - both main line and heritage railways. Not to be missed !!! |
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When Brunel's Great Western Railway - built on the broad gauge - was opened from London to Bristol at the beginning of the Victorian era, it was one of the marvels of the age. The Rev. Canon Brian Arman, Society President and Great Western Expert, comes to lead us on a journey by Broad Gauge,…
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Mark Hopwood CBE (Managing Director GWR) will give us an update on current GWR operations and developments |
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Ian's talk on the robbery is the result of years of research and fact finding together with his personal goal being, how on earth do you stop a express train doing 95 miles per hour in the middle of nowhere and drive it yourself ?? Ian brings a 1960’s colour light signal with him to… |
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Charles will be telling us all about an electric network that is the second largest in the country and somewhat overlooked by those in the South
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In a Sequel to "Was it Really 40 Years Ago?", David Allen continues his Black & White photographic journey. Besides following the calendar through 1982, the West Country and South Wales will be looked at specifically. Reflecting the fact that he has lived in Durham since 1970, there will be a number of shots showing… |
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