The subject of today’s meeting at Hitchin was The Midland Main Line from the Peter Bland Collection, presented by Bryan Cross.  This was the fifth instalment of Bryan’s work with…

UK Railways in 21st Century by Society member John Day was our topic for today’s presentation. This turned out to be a stunning afternoon with some superb photographs, mixed with…

  Geoff Brockett treated us to a varied colourful afternoon presentation featuring “The Great Eastern Railway since 1991”. We covered all lines emanating from Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street, stopping…

Society secretary Richard Morris, our speaker this afternoon, was welcomed by members, His presentation on the West Somerset Railway obviously proved very popular. We started with the history of the…

Paul Chancellor, our speaker this afternoon, presented “My Life as Spotter” his 12th in the series of his Colour Rail Journeys, showing his life watching and photographing trains. After being…

This afternoon we welcomed back Geoff Plumb, with his presentation “That was the year that was 1972”. After a few opening photographs taken  in Germany and here at home, with…

At today’s meeting David Scudamore brought us Part 2 of his presentation on “Cambridge Area Railways, Yesterday and Today.” We started with a relatively early (1930’s) view of Cambridge station…

“Sir Nigel Gresley, His Life and Work” was the subject Simon Martin presented to us this afternoon, attracting our largest meeting attendance for several years. Starting with a look at…

This afternoon’s presentation “The Caledonian Railway”, presented by Roger Pidgeon, was a full coverage of this railway throughout its life. (1845 – 1923). We covered its many routes from Carlisle…

Our meeting this afternoon started with the Branch AGM for which we had one of our best AGM attendances. This was followed by a colourful and lively presentation by our…

Colin Brading, our speaker this afternoon, presented us with a superb selection of his favourite sights, journeys and everything he liked about the railways. A thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining presentation.…

Local resident & member Richard Allen, our speaker today, presented “The Last Decade around Hitchin”. This attracted another large audience, proving our move to afternoon meetings was a good one.…

For our first WGC meeting of the year, we welcomed Chris Wright, who recalled for us his “Memories of a Gorleston Spotter”. Chris moved to East Anglia in 1953, within…

This meeting represented a big change for the Branch, firstly it was the first meeting in our new venue and, secondly, by popular demand, it was our first afternoon meeting…

We finished our programme for 2024 on a high, at Digswell, with our largest attendance of the year. Our speaker, Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch member George Howe, talked…

Tonight, for our last meeting before moving to a new venue in Hitchin, we welcomed back Chris Jones, who we thank for adapting the advertised presentation into this slightly shorter…

One of our largest attendances of the year came to see Dave Goodyear’s presentation “Colchester in the Age of Steam”. This was a history lesson on the range of locomotives…

Society trustee Paul Chancellor was our speaker tonight with his 11th Colour-Rail journey. As usual with Paul, we saw some excellent photographs many were his own along with a selection…

Today the Branch membership was treated to their second foreign tour this month – today we went travelling with Michael Smyth to see his “Travels around Ukraine by Steam”. Michael…

Our meeting tonight was superb and thoroughly entertaining. Dave Longman talked about his solo trips to China to photograph steam. He visited various coal mines and steel works on several…

Today we welcomed back Stephen Gay from Sheffield with part 2 of his presentation “Through Kirton Tunnel – Kirton Lindsey to Cleethorpes”. The talk was set in and around the…

Tonight, we thank Andy Grimmett for his presentation “A Drivers Eye View – 48 years on the Railway”, having arrived in Hitchin amid a torrential downpour, with parts of the…

This afternoon’s meeting presented by Rob Freeman was a Western European miscellany of the railways in France, Germany and Belgium during the 1980 & 1990’s. Starting in Paris, where else…

A nostalgic trip into past for our members at this evening’s meeting, with Michael Smyth’s presentation “The Deltics, Worthy Successors to the A4’s” these iconic locomotives coupled with our closeness…

We were pleased to welcome Society Secretary Richard Morris today giving us his presentation “A pictorial history of the HST’s”. Being a Great Western man through & through quite a…

This evening Peter Robins kept us up dated with a “A Decade of Change from 2011 Onwards” Peter’s superb photographs were enjoyed unfortunately by our smallest attendance for quite some-time.…

We welcomed a good audience to today’s meeting, they were treated to a superb afternoon’s entertainment with John Day (Ipswich) showing and telling us about Railtours and Specials (part 2)…

Memories of a Gorleston Spotter (part 2) was our subject for tonight’s meeting with presenter Chris Wright. This presentation followed from Chris’s visit to us in October last year. Tonight,…

Another fascinating afternoon with Geoff Plumb, “That was the Year That was 1971”, but much to my surprise Geoff spent quite some-time during this year in East & West Germany,…

Our presentation tonight was by Dave Scudamore. Not only was it fascinating but parts of it turned out to be a real history lesson. In the early 1900’s Cambridge was…

Today we were entertained to a true history lesson, when Colin Brading spoke to us, with the aid of photographs, on “Tunnel Vision – The History of the Metropolitan Railway”.…

Following on from our Branch AGM, Richard Cole gave us a presentation on “Living & Working with Trains”. The first section was his growing up with former RCTS Vice President…