Posts by SOE Solent

Arlington (Eastleigh) Works visit 1st October 2022. Seventeen members were guided around the works by the Arlington guides Reg Spurr and Dave Titheridge (both RCTS members) were were treated to…

Our first meeting of the 2022/23 season was held on 21 October when we welcomed Stephen Bigley who gave a presentation on steam from the lineside taken on photographic charters.…

Railway Correspondence & Travel Society Solent Branch Summer 2022 Newsletter Following the re-establishment of physical meetings in September 2021 a year has passed by in which the Branch has had…

Solent Branch Observation Evening at Reading Station was attended by 3 members from 14:50 until 19:05 with a Thames Valley, soon to be Solent member, from 16:30. We seated ourselves…

On Wednesday 15th June Solent Branch met for an observation meeting at Eastleigh Station from 16:30 until 20:00. There were 11 members present all but one from the Solent Branch…

The final indoor meeting of the 2021/22 season on 18 May was Colorado Adventure by David Brace. David set the scene by reminding us that the state capital, Denver, is…

For their April meeting the Solent Branch welcomed Tony Storey to give a presentation on 6 decades of photographing steam. The first section of the presentation was concerned with BR…

The March meeting of the Solent Branch was a presentation by member Mark Greening on the 1980s in the south of England. We began by looking at new stock introduced…

The guest speaker at the Solent Branch for their February meeting was Ken Mumford who gave a presentation shown under the title of Railway Allsorts. Ken is a Welshman, so…

The branch held its annual general meeting on 26 January. The committee elected to serve for the coming year were John Godfrey (Chairman and Secretary), Peter Ifold (Treasurer), Dave Doulton…