Posts by WFD Watford
‘War and Peace’, by Simon Colbeck, 4th March 2025
4th March 2025 Meeting. ‘War and Peace – Steam in Sweden and Bosnia’, by Simon Colbeck. An absorbing and interesting presentation which started with this country and recent shots of…
Read More‘History of the Severn Valley Railway’, by Bernie Holland, 4th February 2025
4th February 2025 Meeting. Bernie Holland presented the ‘History of the Severn Valley Railway’, via a virtual Zoom meeting. 50,000 years ago, a large glacial ice-lake, around 300 square miles…
Read More‘Railways at the Dawn of Nationalisation’, by Robin Mathams, 7th January 2025
7th January 2025 Meeting. For our January meeting, which has been via Zoom since 2021, we welcomed back Robin Mathams of the Sutton Coldfield Railway Society for his show entitled…
Read More‘Members’ Presentations’, 3rd December 2024
3rd December 2024 Meeting. The last meeting of the year involves our ‘Mistress of the Urn’ Lizzie cooking sausage rolls and mince pies between members’ presentations. We kicked off with…
Read More‘Funeral Trains and Final Journeys’, by Nicolas Wheatley, 5th November 2024
5th November 2024 Meeting. On Guy Fawkes night we welcomed Nicolas Wheatley from Cheltenham, for his unusual talk on ‘Funeral Trains and Final Journeys’. This lavishly illustrated presentation covers the…
Read More‘Memories are Made of These!’, by Phil Darlaston, 1st October 2024
1st October 2024 Meeting For our October meeting we welcomed Thames Valley Branch Chairman Phil Darlaston, who although he lives in Wallingford also volunteers on the GWSR and is a…
Read More‘Those Were the Years Those Were, Part 2’, by Michael Reade, 3rd September 2024
3rd September 2024 Meeting. We welcomed back branch member Michael Reade for Part 2 of ‘Those were the years those were [with apologies to Geoff Plumb]’. The majority of the…
Read More‘1960s East Midlands Stills and Ciné’, by Michael Clemens, 2nd July 2024
2nd July 2024 Meeting. We welcomed Michael Clemens for a talk about East Midlands Railways in the 1960s. We started with a Mogul storming up Hatton Bank, then a railtour…
Read More‘Underground Trains on the Isle of Wight’, by Brian Hardy, 4th June 2024
4th June 2024 Meeting. For our June Meeting we welcomed back former LT Head Controller Brian Hardy for another presentation, this time ‘Underground Trains on the Isle of Wight’ which…
Read More‘Those Were the Years Those Were’ Part 1, by Michael Reade, 7th May 2024
7th May 2024 Meeting. We welcomed Branch Member Michael Reade for the first part of a two part presentation entitled: “Those Were the Years Those Were” Part 1 (With Apologies…
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