The Long Lost Roy Vincent and Tom Williams Collections
WMD Coventry Cheylesmore Community Centre, Arundel/Poitiers Road, CoventryMy life as a Railway Civil Engineer by Steve Brame
NHN Northampton Weston Favell Parish Hall, Booth Lane South, NorthamptonSheffield to Cleethorpes – Part 2
MCN Bromborough The Bromborough Suite. The Merebrook, Greenfields Avenue, Bromborough, Wirral, MerseysideWeek of Events
The Long Lost Roy Vincent and Tom Williams Collections
The Long Lost Roy Vincent and Tom Williams Collections
For many years both authors and publishers alike would have loved to include images from these collections in their titles. In this presentation our own well versed speaker, Chris Youett, will explain their stories in detail. Roy Vincent was an official photographer for the LNER and later British Railways Eastern region. We will also include…
My life as a Railway Civil Engineer by Steve Brame
My life as a Railway Civil Engineer by Steve Brame
Northamptonian Steve Brame trained as an Engineer and worked for BR on new bridge works in the 1970s, and finished with Crossrail, with other work in between on projects such as revisions to the Silverstone Racetrack.
The Current Day Scene in Europe
The Current Day Scene in Europe
The show will feature pictures of the modern scene in Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Luxembourg and Baltic States. Brian spent 41 years with BR in operations control at such places as Liverpool Lime St, Rugby, Stoke on Trent, Manchester Victoria, London Euston, Orpington Beckenham, London Waterloo ending up with Railtrack in Blackfriars Road,…
Sheffield to Cleethorpes – Part 2
Archive & Library Open Day
All Change, Britain’s Railways 1967 to 1979
All Change, Britain’s Railways 1967 to 1979
Following Mike’s personal farewell tour of steam around the UK in 1966, railways took a back seat in his life. University, jobs, marriage, and children took over and railway photographs generally resulted from being at a location for other reasons, rather than special trips to photograph trains. However, the photos he did take chart an…
NR’s New Measurement Train and the infrastructure monitoring fleet – Brendan Rice
NR’s New Measurement Train and the infrastructure monitoring fleet – Brendan Rice
Brendan will describe the use of the NMT and the other infrastructure monitoring vehicles in the RTC fleet
A Toss of the Coin – My Life as a Railway Professional
A Toss of the Coin – My Life as a Railway Professional
David says - The talk is called 'A Toss of the Coin' as one shaped my railway career to the operating rather than marketing side and I would cover my railway training at Old Oak Common in the late 50s and WR training in 1961-4, SM and AM roles in South Wales in 1960s, ten…
Steam in the British Isles in the 1960s
Steam in the British Isles in the 1960s
A presentation by Tony Bowles of his own images, featuring steam working all around the United Kingdom - on the main lines of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from 1962 onward until the end in 1968, and also of industrial steam into the early 1970s.