Posts by MHD Windsor and Maidenhead

At our meeting on 23rd September at our normal location and on Zoom, the guest speaker, Keith Brown, gave a very informative talk, aided by slides, entitled “How We Built…

Our last home meeting of the season was Czech Railways today presented by Robert Pritchard of Platform 5 fame. Robert is the author of the Czech and Slovak railways stock…

At our meeting on 26th February, Steve Tyler, Performance and Planning Director at South Western Railway, gave an update on the latest developments at that busiest of train operators. These…

On 22nd January the branch enjoyed an evening of nostalgia when David Cross, the son of Derek Cross, gave us “An Evening With Father’s Slides”. Derek Cross was one of…

At our meeting on 27th November, the guest speaker, Ian Boskett, gave a witty and informative talk, aided by props and photographs, his subject being the Great Train Robbery on…

Our October meeting featured an old friend in John Day who presented The Railways of East Anglia in transition from the 1980’s.  John’s employment enabled him to travel widely over…

Our last meeting of the season was our joint meeting with the Marlow Railway Society at Bourne End.  Mike Walker addressed a well filled room and on line audience on…

Tuesday 27th June 2023 saw the 150th anniversary celebration of the Marlow Branch by Great Western Railway. Class 165 no: 165122 received decals showing the Marlow Branch and spent the…

For our last branch meeting of the season on 22 May we welcomed Malcolm Garner, who took as his subject the Hixon level crossing disaster of 6 January 1968. Malcolm…

At the February Hybrid meeting we welcomed back Cliff Perry to present A Railway Life (Why I’m grey!).  Cliff started by giving us a precis of his railway career, starting…