Branch AGM followed by A South Wales Showcase
2025-01-08 19:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | SWL Radyr, Cardiff, Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, CF15 8DF, United Kingdom
The Branch AGM will be followed by a medley of images from a number of members of the Railways in South Wales Facebook Group led by Jeremy Segrott, Branch Chairman

The glorious Steam railways of India
2025-01-08 19:30 - 21:30
we travel to India the huge asian country where John Sloane will give one of his super sessions

Archive And Library Open Day
2025-01-09 11:00 - 16:00, 2025-01-15 11:00 - 16:00, 2025-01-21 11:00 - 16:00 | RCTS Library, Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, KT22 7SQ, United Kingdom

USA in the 60s
2025-01-09 19:00 - 21:30 | PBR Peterborough, St Luke’s Church, Mayor's Walk, Peterborough, PE3 6EZ, United Kingdom
A slide show by Colin Greatrex
This meeting will also include the branch AGM.

Branch Quiz for the "Dick Dyson trophy"
2025-01-10 19:30 - 22:00 | Fulwood Lawn Tennis club Highgate Ave Preston PR2 8DY, Highgate Ave, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 8DY
Quiz master Martyn Hilbert

In Edinburgh: "Dark Doings at Low Level" by Jim Summers
2025-01-11 14:00 - 16:30 | SCT Edinburgh, Scots Guards Club, 2 Clifton Terrace,, Edinburgh, EH12 5DR, United Kingdom
Another welcome return by our friend Jim Summers who will be telling us about the construction and operation of the lines through Glasgow Central Low Level – one of which, between Rutherglen and Partick, now forms the core of the present-day Argyle Line.
The low level platforms seen in May 1981, just under two years after re-opening..
The adjacent, but abandoned, second island platform nowadays features in the popular Glasgow Central undercroft tour, run by Network Rail.

Note that this is a Saturday afternoon meeting.

RCTS WEN Branch Meeting and AGM: Alan Hopkins South African and Zimbabwe Steam in the 1980s
2025-01-11 19:00 - 21:30 | WEN Exeter [Mint Methodist Church], Fore Street, Exeter, EX4 3AT, United Kingdom
Following the AGM Alan Hopkins will be entertaining us with a talk about his visits to South Africa and Zimbabwe in search of steam during the 1980s. It promises to be a fascinating talk about the railways and the steam locos which kept the railways operating

My work in Control and my control of D6732 on the NNR by Alistair Barham.
2025-01-13 14:15 - 16:30 | Greenfinch Hall,Greenfinch Avenue Ipswich IP2 0SQ

Euston to Carlisle late fifties early sixties photos - preceded by Branch AGM - David Cross
2025-01-14 14:00 - 16:30 | EMD Nottingham, The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, NG1 4EZ, United Kingdom
David will entertain us with a selection of his famous father’s slides (Derek Cross)

North from Kings Cross - Photos from the RCTS Archive
2025-01-14 14:00 - 16:30 | St Marks Church Hall, Hitchin SG5 1UR, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 1UR
A Presentation by David Jackman for the Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch.
David Jackman will present a photographic review of the southern ECML as seen through the lens of the society’s photographic archive. This will feature both steam and diesel eras – not completely forgetting the electric era – with the odd deviation along the way.
In the photo Class B1 No. 61272 on the up ‘Butlins Holiday Express’ at Hitchin 2/7/60 (Courtney Haydon)
Please note that this will be at the new venue in Hitchin and will start at 14:00.
Doors open 13:30 for a 14:00 start.

"Appalachian Mountain Wanderings" by Tony Field
2025-01-14 19:30 - 22:00 | CBR Fulbourn, Cambridge, The Swifts, Haggis Gap, Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB21 5HD, United Kingdom
Passage through these mountains still provides a stern test even for modern traction. This video presentation shows a variety of such workings, all set in spectacular scenery.

Railways 1933-36, from the Sutton Coldfield Railway Society's Moseley collection
2025-01-14 19:30 - 22:00 | Virtual Meeting, Virtual Meeting, United Kingdom
A further presentation of photographs from the Sutton Coldfield Railway Society’s Moseley Archive of over 2000 photographs taken by the late Percy Moseley between 1911 and the 1970s. Following previous presentations of images from the 1940s and early 1950s, for this evening’s presentation we return to the pre-war era of the early 1930s, when many of the steam locos that were part of the spotting experience for many of us were only just appearing (or still in the future). It will be given by Robin Mathams, joint archivist for the SCRS.

Branch AGM
2025-01-15 18:30 - 19:30 | SOE Eastleigh, Junction Church (formerly Eastleigh Railway Institute), 2 Romsey Road, Eastleigh, SO50 9FE, United Kingdom

Chemin de fer du Provence
2025-01-15 19:30 - 22:00 | SOE Eastleigh, Junction Church (formerly Eastleigh Railway Institute), 2 Romsey Road, Eastleigh, SO50 9FE, United Kingdom

The Dick Sansbury Collection
2025-01-16 14:00 - 16:30
Dick was a Geography teacher and taught at Eastleigh and also at Aberystwyth University which is why this show mainly covers Hampshire and the Cambrian lines of the Western Region in the 1950s. There are also odd pictures taken around the western region and some on the London Midland Region, but virtually little on the eastern region. Whilst mainly steam, some modern traction is there as well, but of course not modern now. EE type 4. Warships and Hampshire and Hastings DEMUs appear as well. The original pioneer preserved narrow gauge railways of Wales also feature. The best pictures of local interest are men at work in Eastleigh works in the 1950s. Dick was a good friend of Eastleigh Shed master and well-known author and photographer Stephen Townroe so got into places not always available to the public like footplate rides and accident scenes. Most of the pictures were taken between 1950 and 1965.

North East Branch - The Photography of Eric Wilson
2025-01-16 19:00 - 21:30 | NEA Darlington, Darlington Cricket Club, South Terrace, Darlington, DL1 5JD, United Kingdom
David Dunn brings us some images from the photographic collection of Eric Wilson

CHM Branch - All about the letter 'A'
2025-01-16 19:00 - 22:00 | CHM Cheltenham, Victory Club, Burlington House, Lypiatt Road, Cheltenham, GL50 2SY, United Kingdom
Mike Dodd returns with some of the steam age railway images held by The Restoration & Archiving Trust at Toddington, taken by a wide selection of a photographers. The show includes images from the railways of Argentina, Austria & Australia, followed by stations and locations across Britain all beginning with the letter “A”.

Surrey Branch - Electrification Of Freight Routes
2025-01-16 19:15 - 21:30 | SRY Woking, Woking United Reform Church, White Rose Lane, Woking, GU22 7HA, United Kingdom
Electrification Of Freight Routes
by Julian Worth

"Manchester in the 1960's" by Roger Hepworth
2025-01-16 19:30 - 21:30 | WRD Shipley, Saltaire Methodist Church, Saltaire Road, Shipley, BD18 3HJ, United Kingdom

The History of Trams - Peter Waller
2025-01-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Cheylesmore Community Centre, Poitiers Road, Coventry 5JX, Poitiers Road, Cheylesmore,, Coventry, CV3 5JX

York to Edinburgh on the ECML by Stephen Gay, Northampton Branch Meeting
2025-01-20 14:00 - 16:30 | NHN Northampton – Weston Favell, Weston Favell Parish Hall, Booth Lane South, Northampton, NN3 3EP, United Kingdom

AGM followed by A Miscellany of Railways by Jon Penn
2025-01-20 19:30 - 21:45 | MCN Bromborough, The Bromborough Suite. The Merebrook, Greenfields Avenue, Bromborough, Wirral, Merseyside, CH62 6DD, United Kingdom
Only branch members will be able to take an active part in the AGM

Middle East Travels
2025-01-20 19:30 - 22:30 | ESX Shenfield, Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, CM15 8LB, United Kingdom
Physical meeting at Shenfield Parish Hall which will also be available on Zoom as a Hybrid Meeting.
Unlike Europe, the Middle East is a bit of a desert (no pun intended) for railways. However there are systems in some countries and Iain’s presentation will cover three of these namely: Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Iain is a South Essex member. His photos are always interesting and of excellent quality. He is a regular contributor of images to the major rail publications.

HSD branch - AGM & Railways in a Cornish landscape Pt 1
2025-01-21 13:30 - 16:00 | HSD Hull, The Highway, Willerby Road, Hull, HU5 5LH, United Kingdom
Branch AGM + Stephen Gay-“Railways in a Cornish landscape Pt 1”

North Staffordshire Railway (Part 4)
2025-01-21 14:00 - 16:30 | TVY Didcot, Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, OX11 7JN, United Kingdom
In the fourth and final part of the North Staffordshire Railway talks series using digitised images from the collection of over 15,000 colour slides taken by the late Tommy Tomalin (who sadly passed away in 2021 at the grand old age of 96). Brian Sullivan continues by showing us views (with historical details) of the Potteries Loop Line from Etruria Junction to Kidsgrove, the North Staffs main line from Stoke to Macclesfield, the Macclesfield Bollington and Marple line (Great Central and North Staffs Joint Line) also known as the Macclesfield Committee Line, and finally the North Staffs line from Lawton Junction to Sandbach.

Metropolitan Lancashire & The West Riding
2025-01-22 19:15 - 22:00 | Virtual Meeting, Virtual Meeting, United Kingdom
The Late Gerald Dixon Collection
The show covers areas of Lancashire from Preston southwards and much of the West Riding of Yorkshire with a brief incursion into North Yorkshire to York.
It is all in colour and with the pictures almost exclusively depicting steam operations between 1962 & 1968.

Railways during the Second World War
2025-01-27 19:30 - 22:00 | MHD Cox Green, Cox Green Community Centre, Highfield Lane, Cox Green, Maidenhead, SL6 3AX, United Kingdom
From the Sutton Coldfield Percy Moseley archive – scenes from 1937 to 1945 presented by the Joint Archivist

The Welshpool & Llanfair Railway - Roger Cragg
2025-01-28 14:00 - 16:30 | EMD Nottingham, The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, NG1 4EZ, United Kingdom
A look at the history and present operation of the Welshpool and Llanfair Railway
