Archived Meeting Reports
Southend Corporation Trams 1901-1942
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
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
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…