Archived Meeting Reports

Harwich for the Continent – The Rail Ferries

By ESX South Essex | 2022-03-21

Presenter: Chris Turland Meeting Held at Shenfield Parish Hall Chris spent most of his life at sea, sailing all over the world, but a significant part was served on the…

The Electric Railways of Merseyside

By ESX South Essex | 2022-02-24

Presenter: Charles Roberts Meeting Held via Zoom Charles’s ability to talk almost non-stop whilst holding the interest of an audience is admirable – worthy of a place on BBC’s Just…

Southend Corporation Trams 1901-1942

By ESX South Essex | 2022-01-19

Presenter: Richard Delahoy Meeting Held via Zoom For a relatively small town Southend-on-Sea has an interesting transport history – two rival rail routes (LT&S and GE) and two tram systems,…

Branch AGM & Members’ Slides

By ESX South Essex | 2021-12-20

Meeting Held via Zoom The meeting was well attended.  The business was conducted quickly (reports having been previously circulated) and the necessary votes unanimously agreed.  Steve Hewitt our Fixtures Secretary…

Rail Freight Group – The Opportunities and Challenges

By ESX South Essex | 2021-11-22

Presenter: Maggie Simpson Meeting Held at Shenfield Parish Hall Maggie gave us an excellent Zoom presentation a year ago; she kindly accepted our invitation to visit us at Shenfield for…

That Was the Year That Was – 1963

By ESX South Essex | 2021-10-18

Presenter: Geoff Plumb Meeting Held at Shenfield Parish Hall Many of us are old enough to remember the year in question and fortunate enough to have savoured it. Geoff was…

Pole to Pole

By ESX South Essex | 2021-09-20

Presenter: John Day Meeting Held at Shenfield Parish Hall September saw our first physical meeting since February 2020 and it was a pleasure to get back to our meeting place…

The Railways of Southern France

By ESX South Essex | 2021-08-16

Presenter: Michael Bunn Virtual Meeting via Zoom Michael served us up a veritable feast. Although the scope was necessarily slightly limited geographically, Michael covered a period from the days of…

Confessions of a Narrow-Minded Enthusiast

By ESX South Essex | 2021-07-19

Presenter: Colin Brading Virtual Meeting via Zoom Colin has spoken to us before; this time his presentation was about narrow gauge. He focused on the smaller end of the topic…

Railways of The Raj -How The Age Of Steam Transformed India

By ESX South Essex | 2021-06-21

Presenter: Christian Wolmar Virtual Meeting via Zoom The initial introduction of railways was down to the East India Company in the late 1840s and it was 1857 before the British…