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Museum of Scottish Railways
Scottish Branch Meeting Report – Saturday 10th February 2024 The Branch welcomed Dr Becky Peacock, SRPS Museum Director, with the presentation “Museum of Scottish Railways, past, present and future”.…
Read MorePictorial Review of 2022 & 2023
Saturday 13th January 2024 The Branch were delighted on Saturday 13th January to welcome Branch member Keith Sanders, assisted by Davie Hall, Keith presenting his latest “Photographic Review” covering 2022…
Read MoreEarly Glasgow Electrification
Nearly 34 years after the start of electric working, 320307 is about to depart from Milngavie in May 1994. Tuesday 5th December 2023 The Branch were delighted to welcome on…
Read MoreSCT Branch Combined 2022/2023 AGM
Scottish Branch recently held their Combined AGM covering 2022 and 2023, 12 members attending. Due to Covid the Branch AGM was a year behind, 2021’s AGM being held in 2022.…
Read MoreIn and out of Control
Our December meeting was “In and out of Control”, presented by Jim Summers. Jim never worked in Control but worked very much with Control during his railway career, always being…
Read MoreLiveries old and new, and liveries that cannot be repeated
Our November meeting was “Liveries old and New/Liveries that cannot be repeated”, presented by Branch member Stuart Malcolm. Stuart conducted the attendees on a tour of the UK, recording locomotive…
Read MoreScottish Branch 2021 AGM report
The much deferred Scottish Branch AGM for 2021 was held during the last week of October. Branch Committee Members agreed to continue in post and were re-elected en bloc. The…
Read MoreThe Railways of Aberdeen
Class Z5 No. 68192 (ex GNSR) at Kittybrewster shed. Image credit · Rob Freeman Our April meeting “The Railways of Aberdeen”, was presented by Keith Jones from Aberdeen. A photograph…
Read MoreRailways around Edinburgh
Our March meeting “Railways around Edinburgh”, was presented by Branch Chairman Ken Falconer. Starting at St Leonards, we journeyed via Duddingston, North Leith, South Leith & Leith Central stations, Seafield,…
Read MoreThe Story of Wormit and the Tay Bridge Disaster
Our February meeting “The Story of Wormit and the Tay Bridge Disaster”, was presented by Charlie Armstrong. Sensible learned men agree the three main causes of the Tay Bridge…
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