At present, the standard option for rail freight motive power is a diesel locomotive, from one of several classes. With the ongoing environmental 'green' pressures, changes will coming - but to what? Bob Tiller, Engineering Specialist with GB Railfreight Ltd, one of our leading railfreight operators, will be coming to give a presentation of the…

Colin’s presentation will be based on his book 'Seventy Years of Railway Photography: Seven Decades Behind the Lens’. Note this is a change from the originally advertised speaker.

The project is recreating a working replica of an express steam locomotive type – the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) ‘Patriot’ class - which did not survive in the 1960’s, when steam traction ended on the then British Railways. When complete, it will join a select family of other LMS express passenger locomotives that…

A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Chris Wright. Chris Wright, a native of Gorleston-on-Sea, spent many school holidays 1959-1965 spotting in Hitchin. In a two-part presentation, the first Tuesday 10th October, the second Tuesday May 14th 2024, he will talk about his early spotting ventures in Norfolk; the end of steam in…

Charles Firminger, President of the Locomotive Club of Great Britain, comes to look back to the 1950s, with a selection of images taken between 1957 and 1959, both in Britain and Europe. Note: Since the start of this season, we are meeting in the Primary Room at the East Croydon URC (rather than the Small…

The 1980s were a period of significant change on BR.  New multiple units began to replace first generation ones.  Long standing traffics moved to road, such as newspapers printed in Manchester and traditionally dispatched by rail to towns and cities across Northern England.  Remnants of domestic coal traffic still existed, illustrated by workings on the…

Branch Treasurer and regular contributor to the Branch newsletter Right Tracks, Steve Rickett will present his favourite images from 40 years of railway photography. One of Steve's recent images from a branch Observation outing is 710 269 at Barking working 2J39, the 10.54 Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside on 20 May  

Steve Rickett, Branch Treasurer and regular contributor to Right Tracks, the Branch Newsletter will present a series of images celebrating more than 40 years of following and photographing trains across Great Britain   Steve's image of 710269 working 2J39 10:54 Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside at Barking on 20 May 2023 during a branch observation…

Surrey Branch will be attending the Farnham & District MRC Exhibition, with our sales stand, at Alderwood Leisure Centre, Tongham Road, Aldershot, GU12 4AS. Assistance with manning the stand would be appreciated.

Archive and Library Open Day

For the first meeting of the 2023/24 programme, David Hunt, will provide an evening of nostalgia which will cover the railways of the UK in the corporate rail blue era of the 1970s with its variety of loco classes and variety of freight, the majority of which is long gone. It will be an entertaining…

Surrey Branch will be attending the Farnham & District MRC Exhibition, with our sales stand, at Alderwood Leisure Centre, Tongham Road, Aldershot, GU12 4AS. Assistance with manning the stand would be appreciated.