Northampton Castle Station in Camera by Richard Deacon, Northampton Branch Meeting
NHN Northampton - Weston Favell Weston Favell Parish Hall, Booth Lane South, Northampton
The Vintage Trains Story – Mike Corbett
Cheylesmore Community Centre, Poitiers Road, Coventry 5JX Poitiers Road, Cheylesmore,, Coventry
Railways Remembered – Cheshire and North Wales
ESX Shenfield Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, ShenfieldWeek of Events
RCTS Society Members Weekend
North East Branch is hosting the Annual Members Weekend from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th October. Base camp for the weekend is the Bannatyne Hotel in Darlington. For further information please see insert in the July 2025 RO, or go to the Members Area of the RCTS website.
Northampton Castle Station in Camera by Richard Deacon, Northampton Branch Meeting
The Vintage Trains Story – Mike Corbett
The Vintage Trains Story – Mike Corbett
As a former Works Manager at Wolverton with a fifty-year career history with many years as a senior engineering manager and director within the rail industry. In retirement Mike is now a volunteer for the Vintage Trains Charitable Trust in Tyseley, Birmingham. This year he has undertaken ''The Vintage Trains Story - the rise to…
Railways Remembered – Cheshire and North Wales
Railways Remembered – Cheshire and North Wales
Remote Speaker Physical meeting at Shenfield Parish Hall which will also be available on Zoom as a Hybrid Meeting. Using material from Online Transport Archive, Charles will show a selection of colour images from this area. The material is drawn from a number of key collections in the Archive, most notably John McCann, Charles Firminger…
Archive And Library Open Day – CANCELLED
Archive And Library Open Day – CANCELLED
Archive And Library Open Day Cancelled due to us STILL awaiting completion of the interior works by GTR.
TVY Branch – The Mangotsfield Triangle – Lost Midland Railway routes to Bristol and Bath
TVY Branch – The Mangotsfield Triangle – Lost Midland Railway routes to Bristol and Bath
The talk describes the long and complex story of railways around Mangotsfield where the first railway transporting coal arrived in 1832. We then follow the history with various railway companies involving both standard and broad gauge, to closure and the establishment of the Bristol and Bath Railway Path which was the first project by Sustrans.
Forty Years on the footplate
The Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway
The Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway
Richard Coghlan presents a picture show of the line from Didcot to Southampton via Winchester Chesil, closed between 1960 & 1962. An array of ‘then & now’; some dates; pictures from his collection, and how the collection started. The image illustrates the bay platform at Newbury.