The Railway Correspondence & Travel Society

My work in Control and my control of D6732 on the NNR by Alistair Barham.
2025-01-13 14:15 - 16:30 (Europe/London) | Greenfinch Hall,Greenfinch Avenue Ipswich IP2 0SQ

Euston to Carlisle late fifties early sixties photos - preceded by Branch AGM - David Cross
2025-01-14 14:00 - 16:30 | EMD Nottingham, The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, NG1 4EZ, United Kingdom
David will entertain us with a selection of his famous father’s slides (Derek Cross)

North from Kings Cross - Photos from the RCTS Archive
2025-01-14 14:00 - 16:30 | St Marks Church Hall, Hitchin SG5 1UR, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 1UR
A Presentation by David Jackman for the Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch.
David Jackman will present a photographic review of the southern ECML as seen through the lens of the society’s photographic archive. This will feature both steam and diesel eras – not completely forgetting the electric era – with the odd deviation along the way.
In the photo Class B1 No. 61272 on the up ‘Butlins Holiday Express’ at Hitchin 2/7/60 (Courtney Haydon)
Please note that this will be at the new venue in Hitchin and will start at 14:00.
Doors open 13:30 for a 14:00 start.

"Appalachian Mountain Wanderings" by Tony Field
2025-01-14 19:30 - 22:00 | CBR Fulbourn, Cambridge, The Swifts, Haggis Gap, Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB21 5HD, United Kingdom
Passage through these mountains still provides a stern test even for modern traction. This video presentation shows a variety of such workings, all set in spectacular scenery.

Railways 1933-36, from the Sutton Coldfield Railway Society's Moseley collection
2025-01-14 19:30 - 22:00 | Virtual Meeting, Virtual Meeting, United Kingdom
A further presentation of photographs from the Sutton Coldfield Railway Society’s Moseley Archive of over 2000 photographs taken by the late Percy Moseley between 1911 and the 1970s. Following previous presentations of images from the 1940s and early 1950s, for this evening’s presentation we return to the pre-war era of the early 1930s, when many of the steam locos that were part of the spotting experience for many of us were only just appearing (or still in the future). It will be given by Robin Mathams, joint archivist for the SCRS.

Archive And Library Open Day
2025-01-15 11:00 - 16:00 | RCTS Library, Leatherhead Station Approach, Leatherhead, KT22 7SQ, United Kingdom

Branch AGM
2025-01-15 18:30 - 19:30 | SOE Eastleigh, Junction Church (formerly Eastleigh Railway Institute), 2 Romsey Road, Eastleigh, SO50 9FE, United Kingdom

Chemin de fer du Provence
2025-01-15 19:30 - 22:00 | SOE Eastleigh, Junction Church (formerly Eastleigh Railway Institute), 2 Romsey Road, Eastleigh, SO50 9FE, United Kingdom

The Dick Sansbury Collection
2025-01-16 14:00 - 16:30
Dick was a Geography teacher and taught at Eastleigh and also at Aberystwyth University which is why this show mainly covers Hampshire and the Cambrian lines of the Western Region in the 1950s. There are also odd pictures taken around the western region and some on the London Midland Region, but virtually little on the eastern region. Whilst mainly steam, some modern traction is there as well, but of course not modern now. EE type 4. Warships and Hampshire and Hastings DEMUs appear as well. The original pioneer preserved narrow gauge railways of Wales also feature. The best pictures of local interest are men at work in Eastleigh works in the 1950s. Dick was a good friend of Eastleigh Shed master and well-known author and photographer Stephen Townroe so got into places not always available to the public like footplate rides and accident scenes. Most of the pictures were taken between 1950 and 1965.

North East Branch - The Photography of Eric Wilson
2025-01-16 19:00 - 21:30 | NEA Darlington, Darlington Cricket Club, South Terrace, Darlington, DL1 5JD, United Kingdom
David Dunn brings us some images from the photographic collection of Eric Wilson

CHM Branch - All about the letter 'A'
2025-01-16 19:00 - 22:00 | CHM Cheltenham, Victory Club, Burlington House, Lypiatt Road, Cheltenham, GL50 2SY, United Kingdom
Mike Dodd returns with some of the steam age railway images held by The Restoration & Archiving Trust at Toddington, taken by a wide selection of a photographers. The show includes images from the railways of Argentina, Austria & Australia, followed by stations and locations across Britain all beginning with the letter “A”.

Surrey Branch - Electrification Of Freight Routes
2025-01-16 19:15 - 21:30 | SRY Woking, Woking United Reform Church, White Rose Lane, Woking, GU22 7HA, United Kingdom
Electrification Of Freight Routes
by Julian Worth

"Manchester in the 1960's" by Roger Hepworth
2025-01-16 19:30 - 21:30 | WRD Shipley, Saltaire Methodist Church, Saltaire Road, Shipley, BD18 3HJ, United Kingdom
