Posts by ESX South Essex
Pole to Pole
Presenter: John Day Meeting Held at Shenfield Parish Hall September saw our first physical meeting since February 2020 and it was a pleasure to get back to our meeting place…
Read MoreThe Railways of Southern France
Presenter: Michael Bunn Virtual Meeting via Zoom Michael served us up a veritable feast. Although the scope was necessarily slightly limited geographically, Michael covered a period from the days of…
Read MoreConfessions of a Narrow-Minded Enthusiast
Presenter: Colin Brading Virtual Meeting via Zoom Colin has spoken to us before; this time his presentation was about narrow gauge. He focused on the smaller end of the topic…
Read MoreRailways of The Raj -How The Age Of Steam Transformed India
Presenter: Christian Wolmar Virtual Meeting via Zoom The initial introduction of railways was down to the East India Company in the late 1840s and it was 1857 before the British…
Read MoreSouthern Locomotives Ltd
Presenter: Nick Thompson Virtual Meeting via Zoom How wonderful! How wonderful that we have amongst us individuals who are inspired by the romance of steam, but don’t stop at that,…
Read MoreHigh Speed 1 (HS1)
Presenter: David Kelso Virtual Meeting via Zoom David gave us an illustrated tour of HS1 and the civil engineering work involved in bringing the cross channel rail link into the…
Read MoreCathedrals of Steam
Presenter: Christian Wolmar Virtual Meeting via Zoom The Victorians bestowed mixed blessings upon us with regard to our transport infrastructure. Driven by the prevailing preference for competition and constrained by…
Read MoreUpgrading Signalling and Using the Wareham Link of the Swanage Railway
Presenter: Michael Walshaw Virtual Meeting via Zoom Michael described the enterprising project which involved close co-operation between a heritage railway and Network Rail (NR), as well as private contractors. A…
Read MoreExotic rail travels in 2019 to North Borneo, Taiwan, South Korea, Ethiopia and Djibouti
Presenter: by Iain Scotchman Virtual Meeting via Zoom Iain was able to entertain 66 members and guests from Europe as well as the UK, in this two-parter; the first was…
Read MoreAGM and Members’ Slide Evening
Virtual Meeting via Zoom Our first AGM (and hopefully the last) by Zoom went well, although not very well attended. Four motions required voting for and these were slickly performed…
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