Posts by WFD Watford
‘Members’ Presentations’, plus Lizzie’s Mince Pies and Sausage Rolls! 5th December 2023
5th December 2023 Meeting GWR Castle 7029 ‘Clun Castle’ with 47773 seen passing Welham Green as 1Z30 from Finsbury Park to Lincoln Central – Taken October 7th 2023. Image Credit:…
Read More‘The East Coast Main Line from Kings Cross to Edinburgh’ – Part 2, York to Edinburgh, by Stephen Gay, 7th November 2023
7th November 2023 Meeting Our November meeting saw Stephen Gay visit for the ninth time for this presentation of ‘ECML Part 2 York to Edinburgh’ which carried on from where…
Read More‘Underground Then and Now’, by Brian Hardy, 3rd October 2023
Aldersgate Station (now Barbican), Then & Now. Image Credit: Brian Hardy 3rd October 2023 Meeting. We welcomed back ever popular presenter Brian Hardy, former Head Controller at London Transport and…
Read More“The Route of ‘The Canadian’and its Branches”, by John Day, 5th September 2023
5th September 2023 Meeting. For the start of our new season we welcomed back John Day, from the Ipswich Branch, with the theme of following the Route of ‘The Canadian’,…
Read More‘That Was the Year That Was – 1971, by Geoff Plumb, 4th July 2023
A sight we had not expected to see again – steam on the main Line! The train that started the great return to steam movement that we still enjoy today…
Read More‘Mangapps – The First Thirty Years’, by John Jolly, 6th June 2023
6th June 2023 Meeting We welcomed Mangapps Railway Museum owner and curator John Jolly for a very interesting talk all about this wonderful venue near Burnham-on-Crouch. John was a farmer…
Read More‘European Misadventures’, by Michael Reade, 2nd May 2023
2nd May 2023 Meeting For our 2nd May meeting we welcomed branch member Michael Reade for his presentation of ‘European Misadventures’. Starting off in 1964 over in Germany his job…
Read MoreBranch AGM and ‘Indian Hill Railways’, by David Brace, 4th April 2023
4th April 2023 Meeting Indian Hill Railways It was the time of the AGM, and this was duly held and dispatched within thirty minutes. There were no surprises and the…
Read More‘Locomotives of the GWSR, Visitors and Resident’, by Dave Boot, 7th March 2023
7th March 2023 Meeting. For our final Zoom meeting of the year we welcomed GWSR Senior Station Master Dave Boot, who has been with the GWSR since the start and…
Read More‘More from Australia in the 1990s’, by Rob Freeman, 7th February 2023
7th February 2023 Meeting For our February meeting, which was the second of our three Winter Zoom meetings, we welcomed Branch Committee member Rob Freeman with ‘More from Oz in…
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