Archived Meeting Reports
Rail Freight Group – The Opportunities and Challenges
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
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
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
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
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
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…
Southern Locomotives Ltd
Presenter: Nick Thompson Virtual Meeting via Zoom How wonderful! How wonderful that we have amongst us individuals who are inspired by the romance of steam, but don’t stop at that,…
High Speed 1 (HS1)
Presenter: David Kelso Virtual Meeting via Zoom David gave us an illustrated tour of HS1 and the civil engineering work involved in bringing the cross channel rail link into the…
Cathedrals of Steam
Presenter: Christian Wolmar Virtual Meeting via Zoom The Victorians bestowed mixed blessings upon us with regard to our transport infrastructure. Driven by the prevailing preference for competition and constrained by…
Upgrading Signalling and Using the Wareham Link of the Swanage Railway
Presenter: Michael Walshaw Virtual Meeting via Zoom Michael described the enterprising project which involved close co-operation between a heritage railway and Network Rail (NR), as well as private contractors. A…