Posts by WFD Watford
‘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…
Read MoreBranch AGM, followed by ‘The Story of the Travelling Post Office’, by Roland Gillott, 2nd April 2024
2nd April 2024 Meeting. For our 2nd April meeting we started with our Branch AGM attended by all six Committee Members and a fair sprinkling of our Branch Members as…
Read More‘That Was the Year That Was – 1973’, by Geoff Plumb, 5th March 2024
5th March 2024 Meeting On the 5th March we had our first physical meeting of the year, and it was the turn of Branch Chairman Geoff Plumb for another in…
Read More‘Railways in and Around World War Two’, by Robin Mathams, 6th February 2024
6th February 2024 Meeting On 6th February we sat down for our second Zoom presentation of the year reaching a peak viewing figure of 62 to enjoy Robin Mathams with…
Read More‘Northampton Gateway Strategic Railfreight Interchange – Project Overview and Construction Update’, by George Collinson, 2nd January 2024
2nd January 2024 Meeting. 2nd January was the date of the first meeting of the year for us and we started off with a Zoom Presentation from George Collinson, a…
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