Posts by NHN Northampton

Last year Mike spoke to us of his career on BR through their various workshops and depots around the network. He is is now part of the Vintage Trains organization…

Today we enjoyed a fascinating afternoon listening to Dennis, a retired railwayman with more recent interests in model railways . His interest in the Waverley route began with childhood holiday…

In January Stephen paid us a return visit for part 2 of his journey on the ECML, this time northwards from York to Edinburgh. As is his style he ‘dropped…

On Monday 18th  December we held our AGM followed by a presentation of some recently discovered photographs of the Weedon Rail crash in 1951 together with a brief look at…

The photographs taken by the late Tommy Tomalin are well known not only by local railway enthusiasts, but wider afield through publications in various books over the years. During his…

Michael grew up in West Yorkshire and the end of steam coincided with his departure for university in the autumn of 1967, but in those years he captured film of…

This was a joint meeting with the Milton Keynes Branch of RCTS. Although Bill didn’t use this title on the day, this was another opportunity to hear of Bill’s life…

This was our only evening meeting this year, enabled by the lighter evenings in May. Branch Member David accompanied by his wife Rob, completed his three part tour of the…

Mike was a graduate entrant to a career in Engineering with BR. Having grown up close to the railway at Northwich and witnessing 8Fs and 04s on freights heading to…

Although billed as The Hawksworth era, following on from last year’s talk on the Collett Years, Canon Brian retold the story of Collett’s time at Swindon as CME. The tale…