Michael Grieves started taking cine film in the 1960s, and from 1969 into the 1970s, took much on various trips to Europe in search of steam, which has now been scanned into digital format. Tonight he will show a miscellany, drawing from trips to Czechoslovakia, Austria - featuring the Vordernberg rack line in winter -…

A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Event. The branch AGM - followed by a presentation given by Richard Cole, son of David Cole who was the founder of the branch and a Vice President of the RCTS. Richard will be looking through some of his dad’s slides and explaining how his passion for railways influenced…

Not quite a lifetime, John took his first picture at the age of nine using his mother's rather ancient folding camera. He was already interested in railways as most boys of his generation were, where the passion came from for recording what he saw on film is lost in the mists of time but it's…

Note this is a change from the previously advertised speaker

This third talk in David's popular series on railways around Cambridge, from their opening to today, begins with the line from Cambridge to Audley End and then eastwards via Saffron Walden to Bartlow Junction.  The route back towards Cambridge is followed as far as Shepreth Branch Junction where we take the Kings Cross line to…

Archive and Library Open Day

The in-depth story of the planning and execution of the Great Train Robbery bu Ian Boskett