Out and about in the UK and Europe 2023 by Robert Pritchard
2024-01-10 19:30 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | Virtual Meeting, Virtual Meeting, United Kingdom
Robert Pritchard returns with his traditional New Year virtual show and will present a wide selection of his photos from recent travels in the UK and Europe. Nine different countries will feature tonight, and whilst most images will be from the UK, Robert will also describe a marathon 21 hour journey by train from Bratislava to Sheffield back in May. Please note this meeting is on a WEDNESDAY.

Archive and Library Open Day
2024-01-11 11:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-17 11:00 - 16:00, 2024-01-23 11:00 - 16:00, 2024-02-03 11:00 - 16:00 | RCTS Library, Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, KT22 7SQ, United Kingdom

SCT Photographic Review of 2022 & 2023
2024-01-13 14:30 - 16:30 | SCT Edinburgh, Scots Guards Club, 2 Clifton Terrace,, Edinburgh, EH12 5DR, United Kingdom
Photographic Review of 2022 & 2023
Keith will present the latest instalment of his photographic reviews.

AGM followed by Stuart Hammond - In Search of Steam
2024-01-13 19:00 - 21:30 | WEN Exeter [Mint Methodist Church], Fore Street, Exeter, EX4 3AT, United Kingdom
The AGM will take place in the first part of the evening, and be followed by a talk from Stuart Hammond one of our members who will entertain with a talk entitled “In search of Steam and other Railway images”

Lessons learnt from the Hixon and Ladbroke Grove Disasters - Fraser Pithie
2024-01-15 14:00 - 16:00 | Cheylesmore Community Centre, Poitiers Road, Coventry 5JX, Poitiers Road, Cheylesmore,, Coventry, CV3 5JX
Today our good friend, Fraser Pithie, turns his attention to railway accidents as he describes the Hixon and Ladbroke Grove disasters and the lessons learnt from these events. One not to be missed.

Roaming around London with a camera by Geoff Brockett.
2024-01-15 14:15 - 16:30 | IPS Ipswich, Greenfinch Church Hall, Greenfinch Avenue, Ipswich, IP2 0SQ, United Kingdom

Steam and Modern Traction 1999-2024
2024-01-15 19:30 - 21:45 | MCN Bromborough, The Bromborough Suite. The Merebrook, Greenfields Avenue, Bromborough, Wirral, Merseyside, CH62 6DD, United Kingdom

Transforming rail travel across East Anglia – the Greater Anglia story
2024-01-15 19:30 - 22:30 | Virtual Meeting, Virtual Meeting, United Kingdom

HSD branch - Diesels in the Peak District
2024-01-16 13:30 - 16:00
Diesels in the Peak District

Rail Reminiscences
2024-01-16 19:00 - 21:30 | TVY Didcot, Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, OX11 7JN, United Kingdom
A personal retrospective looking back over the last 50 years to date at the ‘Big Railway’, Main Line Steam, the maturing Preservation scene and with a little infrastructure and Overseas thrown in.

Branch AGM
2024-01-17 18:30 - 19:30 | SOE Eastleigh, Junction Church (formerly Eastleigh Railway Institute), 2 Romsey Road, Eastleigh, SO50 9FE, United Kingdom

Railways of the Past (Part 2)
2024-01-17 19:30 - 22:00 | SOE Eastleigh, Junction Church (formerly Eastleigh Railway Institute), 2 Romsey Road, Eastleigh, SO50 9FE, United Kingdom

Rail in Japan
2024-01-18 19:00 - 22:00 | CHM Cheltenham, Victory Club, Burlington House, Lypiatt Road, Cheltenham, GL50 2SY, United Kingdom
There’s more to the system than bullet-trains and cramming commuters onto suburban trains. Old bogie tramcars running on the streets of many cities, tilting and double-deck trains on the 3ft 6ins, childish trains, ugly trains, pay-as-you-leave single-unit diesel railcars, even scheduled steam operation. All will be revealed.
And of course legendary cleanliness, punctuality, and politeness.

Heritage Railway Association
2024-01-18 19:15 - 21:30 | SRY Woking, Woking United Reform Church, White Rose Lane, Woking, GU22 7HA, United Kingdom

"Fifty Years Ago" - Presenter Roger Hepworth
2024-01-18 19:30 - 21:30 | WRD Shipley, Saltaire Methodist Church, Saltaire Road, Shipley, BD18 3HJ, United Kingdom
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A CHANGE TO THE PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED MEETING

Harringworth Viaduct by John Hillier
2024-01-22 14:00 - 16:30 | NHN Northampton – Weston Favell, Weston Favell Parish Hall, Booth Lane South, Northampton, NN3 3EP, United Kingdom

An evening with Father’s slides
2024-01-22 19:30 - 22:00 | MHD Cox Green, Cox Green Community Centre, Highfield Lane, Cox Green, Maidenhead, SL6 3AX, United Kingdom
Derek Cross was one of the most well known railway photographers during the latter years of steam and early modern traction eras. His Son David will be sharing a selection of these images for us to to enjoy. Following digitisation of the slide material, we are delighted to offer this show as a Hybrid meeting.

All aboard The Master Cutler - Chris Youett - afternoon meeting 14.00
2024-01-23 08:00 - 17:00 | EMD Nottingham, The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, NG1 4EZ, United Kingdom

Steam in the British Isles
2024-01-24 19:15 - 21:30
The show starts with 10 b&w shots in 1962, and then continues all in colour starting in Northern Ireland. Moving to Scotland, we then continue down through northern England as far as the Peak district, then via Crewe into Wales, before moving on to South Western & the South of England. We end around the Midlands from Northants through to Gloucestershire with a fair amount of coverage around Stratford upon Avon where I lived half my life finishing at Toddington, where I have spent the other half. – Tony Bowles
This is a Zoom meeting

From War to Nationalisation: Britain’s Railways from 1945 into the 1950s
2024-01-25 19:30 - 22:00 | Virtual Meeting, Virtual Meeting, United Kingdom
A presentation from the LCGB/NRM Ken Nunn collection, by Jeremy Harrison, of images from 1945 into the 1950s.
This was a period of rapid change, as the railways changed from their drab, run down appearence at the end of the war, to a bright, clean new order, with the first glimpses of modernisation and a move from steam, as Nationalisation initiated some great changes.
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A history of 8F 48773 by Ian Chapman of the 8F society.
2024-01-26 19:30 - 22:00 | LNW Preston, Fulwood Lawn Tennis Club, Watling Street Road, Preston, PR2 8DY, United Kingdom

Steam in the Kings Cross Area - in the 50's and 60's
2024-01-30 14:00 - 16:30 | HTC Welwyn, Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, AL6 0DH, United Kingdom
A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation.
Presenter: David Percival.
It was in 1953 that the Percival family moved from South London to North Hertfordshire. For the next ten years, until the end of regular steam in the area, David spotted at the ECML lineside, travelled by train to school and latterly commuted to Kings Cross.
This presentation chronicles the variety of steam classes and workings he observed “on the GN” during that decade, illustrated with photographs from ColourRail and others as well as some of his own pictures taken in the closing years.
This photo shows 64206 shunting the morning Hitchin-Hertford ‘pick up’ at Langley Junction on 17 January 1959 (photo by Basil Coles). This image is in the presentation.
Doors open 13:30.

East West Rail Update & The Newport Nobby
2024-02-01 19:30 - 21:00 | Virtual Meeting, Virtual Meeting, United Kingdom
Join us for another evening of members’ presentations on Zoom. Clive Pepper will present an update on the developments with East West Rail and Steve Dexter will take a look back at the Newport Pagnell branch line.

an accidental but joyous career on the railways
2024-02-02 19:30 - 21:30
eddie pollock will guide us through his working life on the railways

2 February 2024 'Steam & Semaphores to Penzance', presented by Nick Dudman.
2024-02-02 19:30 - 22:00 | BTL North Filton, St Teresa’s Church Hall, 71 Gloucester Road, North Filton, BS34 7PL, United Kingdom
Maurice Dudman’s excellent slides presented by his son Nick. In Part 1 we reached Weston-Super-Mare and so tonight we will continue on to Penzance.

RCTS West of England Branch Meeting "The Barnstaple & Okehampton Branches through the years" David Mitchell
2024-02-03 19:00 - 21:30 | WEN Exeter [Mint Methodist Church], Fore Street, Exeter, EX4 3AT, United Kingdom
RCTS West of England Branch meeting will feature another talk by Branch Chair David Mitchell with a talk entitled “The Barnstaple & Okehampton Branches through the years” – a mix with mainly B&W oldies more modern, mainly colour stuff from Dave camera.
*******PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE******** Owing to Parking issues at the Mint the meeting has been brought forward to 03/02/24

‘Railways in and around World War Two’, by Robin Mathams
2024-02-06 19:00 - 21:30 | Virtual Meeting, Virtual Meeting, United Kingdom
Note this is a Virtual Zoom Meeting for which you can register via the ‘Register with Zoom’ link below. There is no charge for this meeting but donations would be gratefully received, these can be made by following the ‘organiser’ link, also below.
