Stephen makes a welcome return to the Sheffield branch, continuing his trip west on the Cornish Main Line, this time from Par to Penzance while also taking in the Cornish branch lines.  

Based on his own involvement with the locomotive, Steve Lacey describes her rescue and restoration from Barry and the complexities of keeping 34081 in working order on the Nene Valley Railway.

A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by David Longman. What do you do if you want to photograph steam in China but don’t speak the language, can’t afford a guide or an interpreter and dislike big groups? In a moment of ‘Mandarin Madness’ you decide to go it alone of course! Dave Longman…

The late Stuart Underdown was a Society member and an accomplished photographer, who put together a number of presentations, including this one, of his ‘Southern Memories’, of his own photographs covering the period from the early 1960s through the 1970s, together with some much older images that he had collected, and ranging from Kent to…

On 9th October 2024, Steve Rickett will take us on a journey from Pembrokeshire to Essex, avoiding London, using secondary routes where possible and going down branch line rabbit holes and visiting lesser-known freight lines. After a relocation to Lincolnshire, we will journey westwards to North Wales, across the Pennines and with detours via some…

This will be the first meeting to be held by the Scottish Branch at its splendid new venue which is directly opposite Haymarket station. Brian returns to continue his illustrated story of touring Scotland in the days of steam.  This time he will be involving the WCML, plus the ex-Caledonian and GSWR lines around Glasgow…

Surrey Branch will be attending the Farnham & District MRC Exhibition at Aldershot.  We will have Society publications and second hand books for sale.

Archive & Library Open Day

The first meeting of our 2024/25 will see David Hunt return to give us a show of his classic images from the 1980s. A tradition slide show, will see us transported back to the years when there were a variety of traffic flows with a the modernisation loco classes, as David goes on tour

Surrey Branch will be attending the Farnham & District MRC Exhibition at Aldershot.  We will have Society publications and second hand books for sale.