A Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Richard Morris. Following the opening of the Bristol and Exeter Railway in 1845 there were soon thoughts about connecting it to the West Somerset and North Devon coastal towns. These discussions didn't get very far until Mr Brunel was engaged. In 1862 a railway was constructed…

Network Rail and Govia Thameslink (GTR) have now undertaken additional works which, we hope, will cure the damp problems at the Stationmaster’s House.  GTR’s contractors have rectifed the damp areas internally but not completed timber repais as yet.  Some shelving is till stored and dust covering on all other shelves while that work is undertaken. …

Michael Grieves started taking cine film in the 1960s, and, as steam in Britain came to an end, made many European trips in search of it, taking many films of what he found - these have now been scanned into digital format. Tonight he will show a miscellany drawing from his trips to France between…