Posts by TVY Thames Valley

Our December meeting was in two parts.  We started with a presentation entitled “My time inside the Wall” (memories of Swindon Works) given by Martin Telling, a former colleague of…

Our first afternoon meeting of the 2025/26 season had a good attendance to hear Adrian Wright and his slide presentation on the North London Railway. The first half of his…

Our Speaker for this meeting was Mike Beale with the subject of the Mangotsfield Triangle The significance of this triangle was that it gave the Midland Railway access to either…

Richard is now the Civil Engineering Advisor to the GWS, and the talk started with a major project finished fairly recently: the new ramp and steps into the entrance.  This has allowed many more elderly visitors to easily access the centre, as well as making it easier…

On Tuesday 20th May we welcomed Leslie McAlister for the first of his series of presentations using scanned slides taken by the late Lance King.  Although Lance worked most of his…

This was the first occasion for some time when we have had  a slide presentation. This covered the last two and half years and featured a wide range of subjects…

Paul Finch, the Vice Chairman of the Western Locomotive Association provided the evening’s presentation. This covered the first purchase of D1062 Western Courier from British Railways and the subsequent acquisition…

For our February Meeting we welcomed back Colin Brading who gave a presentation titled “ Remembering my Lines”. The use of the word “lines” referred to lines in a poem…

  For this presentation we welcomed Brian Sullivan to give the final presentation which included routes not previously covered in the previous presentations.. Immediately after leaving Stoke were the original…

Our speaker was Dick Watts who was the Western Region Civil Engineer responsible for the design of the new bridge required to increase the road capacity to six lanes. This…