Posts by TVY Thames Valley

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…

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…

This presentation was by Andrew Kaye who is a member of the Thames Valley Group. Although now living in the UK, Andrew was brought up in Sudbury, Ontario and spent…

The first part of the presentation was based on a number of organized trips to East Anglia in 2012 and 2018 and covered railways of all gauges and size. The…

The presentation consisted of two parts. The first covered the early history of diesel locomotives in the UK pre WW2 and the building of the two LMS Diesels and their…

Brian Sullivan returned to give us a further selection of the historic photos taken by Tommy Tomalin.  This talk covered the North Staffs lines that ran from Stoke-on-Trent to Stone,…