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.

Diesels in the Peak District

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.

Archive and Library Open Day

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

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A CHANGE TO THE PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED MEETING