Croydon & South London [CSL]
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the formation of the Croydon & South London Branch: our first meeting was held in September 2002. The first twenty years of the Branch’s existence have seen it hold many interesting meetings and other events, and overcome a number of challenges – culminating in the suspension of face-to-face meetings as Covid-19 struck, which led to the Branch being a Society pioneer in holding meetings via Zoom. However, with the abatement of the pandemic, we have resumed face-to-face meetings in Croydon and Redhill, which we hope will continue for many years.
Meetings for our twenty first season are currently being organised: for details of coming meetings see under ‘What’s On’ below. In addition to our regular evening meetings in Croydon on the second Tuesday of the month, we be holding our usual biannual afternoon meetings in Redhill, and our annual pre-Christmas dinner (see Autumn Branch Newsletter). Our January and February meetings – in the depths of winter – will be held, it has been decided, will be held virtually, via Zoom.
To keep Branch Members informed the Branch maintains an e-mail list. If you would like to be added to this, please contact the Branch Web Co-ordinator, Jeremy Harrison, at croydon.web@rcts.org.uk .
A Branch newsletter is produced periodically, and sent to branch members. These are also available for download:
Autumn (November) 2022 Branch Newsletter
What's on
Venues
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Contacts
Jeremy Harrison
(see below)
Secretary and Exhibitions Officer
Treasurer and Web Co-ordinator
Committee Members
Meeting reports
21st March 2023: West from Paddington – A Broad Gauge Journey, by Brian Arman
In March we had two meetings. For the second, on March 21st, we had our RCTS President, Rev. Canon Brian Arman, taking us on a Broad Gauge Journey West from…
14th March 2023: Around the World with 155 Hunslet 4-6-0Ts, by Kim Winter
These 155 Hunslet engines were built for WW1 to a 1905 design for the Empire, with a further 8 post war. The War Office Locomotive Trust, whose objective is the…
14th February 2023: That Was the Year that Was – 1965, by Geoff Plumb
Geoff’s father took an active role in the RCTS, so Geoff went with him on many RCTS railtours. Geoff received a new camera for his 14th birthday 2 years before;…
10th January 2023: Railways at the Dawn of Nationalisation, 1946-49, from the Sutton Coldfield Railway Society’s Moseley collection
For our 10th January meeting, held via Zoom, we welcomed back Robin Mathams, with “Railways at the Dawn of Nationalisation”. 96 people signed in, including several of our German friends.…
13th December 2022: The Work of the Rail Accident Investigation Branch
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) was established in 2005, following a recommendation from the Cullen enquiry, as the independent body for investigating accidents and incidents on mainline railways, metros,…
8th November 2022: Railways of the former USSR
The Beatles had a song entitled, ‘Back in the USSR’, and that’s where Jeremy Harrison took us at our meeting on the 8th November, with a presentation – all on…