Posts by CHM Cheltenham

Peter Bamber and Paul Finch from The Western Locomotive Association paid us a second visit in November – this time to present Preservation, Western Style. A member of the Association…

We were delighted to welcome Stuart Warr from South Wales to present McRailrover on 17th October. Stuart has had many opportunities to travel to the furthest reaches of Scotland over…

Paul Chancellor opened our 2024/25 season with a fine selection of images from the “11th Colour-Rail Journey”. Paul is proprietor of this organisation which handles prints, slides, and digital images…

John Benson was a much respected member of the Branch for many years, living near to Hereford. He enrolled into the RAF, after WWII, and served as ‘ground crew’ assigned…

Mike Dodd volunteers for the Restoration and Archiving Trust (RAT) at the GWSR where he scans and digitises their substantial collection of photographs, negatives, slides (sounds familiar!). This exercise unearthed…

Branch member Sholto Thomas brought us Rail in Japan for our January meeting. The images were taken over two trips, covering rail journeys from the furthest northern island of Hokkaido…

We welcomed Society President, Canon Brian Arman on Thursday 21st December with the next instalment of his presentation about the Great Western Railway. This episode, The Hawksworth Years 1941-1947 described…

Five members of the WLA came on 16th November to present Three years in the life of the Western Locomotive Association. Deputy Chairman Paul Finch led the presentation with plenty…

Ian Crowder brought the story of BR Standard Cl.4MT 2-6-0 No. 76077 to us on 19th October. Along with his colleague Dr Ian Pogson, we learned of 76077’s building at…

Opening our 2023-24 season was Malcolm Garner with his presentation Fun with Southern Steam in the 1960s. Malcolm was due to visit last December but seasonal weather put that idea…