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…

Iain Scotchman gave us a superb presentation on modern traction, talking about “East Anglia in the 2020’s”. During the afternoon we saw 15 different locomotive types & 16 assorted unit…

  ‘Don’t believe what you’ve seen or read’ – so started Simon Martin at our Hitchin meeting on 13th February. His subject for the evening was Edward Thompson, Wartime Chief…

For our first WGC meeting of the year, we welcomed David Percival with his presentation “Steam in the Kings Cross Area in the 50’s & 60’s”. David also attracted our…

Geoff Plumb, our final speaker of the year, gave us a fascinating insight into the world of industrial locos in and around the 1960’s. These small work horses were the…

We were thoroughly entertained this evening by David Jackman with his presentation “A Decade of Home & Away”. The evening started with a look at the Southern Region, showing all…

This afternoon we welcomed back Steve Ollive with Part 2 of his presentation “An A to Z of Switzerland”. We started today’s tour on the line between Locarno & Domodossola,…

This evening we were entertained by Chris Jones with his presentation, “Five go to Swansea”, all about the many railway companies and terminals that existed in this Welsh City. Many…

A Presentation by Chris Wright. “Steam in 1950’s & 60’s” turned out to be a quite different evening to our usual presentations. Instead of the speaker talking around his photographs…

A presentation by Stephen Gay. Today we welcomed back Stephen Gay from Sheffield with his presentation on the line from Doncaster to Hull. Although many from our area regard the…

A Presentation by George Howe. Nostalgia was the key, when branch member George Howe presented to us his programme of “The Last Four Years of Steam”. George & his camera…

A presentation by Des Shepherd. A nostalgic trip into past was the theme for our members at this evening’s meeting, Des Shepherd’s presentation “Just Like the Old Days”, took us…

A Presentation by John Jolly. A thoroughly engaging talk, given without slides (or notes), by the owner of the Museum & Railway at Mangapps Farm, Essex. John, a brilliant raconteur,…

  A Presentation by Paul Chancellor. This evening we were thoroughly entertained by Paul Chancellor, with his “Tenth Colour Rail Journey”. On this journey we looked at photographs of ten…

A presentation by John Day. We welcomed a very good audience to our first meeting in our new venue. They were treated to a superb afternoon’s entertainment with John Day…

A presentation by Eddie Veckranges and Gary Sanders. Our presentation this afternoon started with the history of the line. Originally this was primarily a freight line, as in those early…

A presentation by Rob Freeman. This evening we were treated to part of the photographic collection of the late H.C Casserley (HCC) 1919 – 1983. During his lifetime HCC visited…

Presented by Colin Hall, Project Chairman. The locomotive 45551 “The Unknown Warrior”, named in 2021 by Falklands hero Simon Weston, is being built from scratch to the original drawings, but…

A presentation by John Hillier. The meeting this evening with John Hillier taught absolutely everything there is to know about “The Harringworth Viaduct”. A good evening with plenty of great…

A Presentation by Dave Cockle. The talk covered Dave’s career from when he left school in 1968 and joined the railway, being posted firstly to Finsbury Park No.3, (an 80-lever…

A Presentation by Geoff Brockett. This evening we were thoroughly entertained by Geoff Brockett with another of his colourful presentations about the “Trams and Trains on the Isle of Man”.…

Presented by Jeremy Harrison For our first WGC meeting of the year, we welcomed Jeremy Harrison of Croydon Branch with his presentation “Swanning Around-London in the 1980’s”. We started the…

Presented by Luke Reger (Siemens). Tonight, we had our largest audience since the end of the pandemic to welcome Luke Reger from Siemens Ltd., to explain what was happening along…