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…

A presentation by Dave Cockle. This afternoon we were treated to a superb presentation about our local area by a local man, Dave Cockle, who came to talk to us…

A Presentation by Mike Bunn.   This afternoon we welcomed Mike Bunn back with his superb presentation on “The History of the Paris Metro.” The Metro originated in the Transport…

A Presentation by Des Shepherd. This evening’s meeting was a comparison on Southern Region between photographs taken 1966 and an attempt to re-take them again 50 years later. Des Shepherd…

A presentation by Richard Morris. Richard started with pictures of broad-gauge loco’s with their 8 ft. diameter driving wheels, stored in various museums, and followed with ex-GWR narrow-gauge engines such…

A presentation by Steve Ollive. This evening we welcomed Steve Ollive with the first part of his presentation on the A to Z of Swiss Railways. Steve had only just…

A Presentation by Stephen Gay. Today we welcomed back Stephen Gay for what has become an annual event, This time he was talking to us about the ECML from York…

A Presentation by Richard Allen. Local man Richard Allen, this evening’s speaker, gave us an excellent presentation on the railways on our doorstep around Hitchin: The presentation featured the years…

A presentation by Ray Schofield.   This month’s meeting was on a very local theme to us in Welwyn GC and was a presentation by Ray Schofield on “The GN…

A presentation by Paul Chancellor. Our evening with Paul Chancellor on his 9th Colour-Rail journey proved to be a great evening, we did not see all of Paul’s 132.000 images…

Presenter: Geoff May   Our speaker this afternoon was Geoff May (Chichester) who entertained us brilliantly with his highly provocative presentation “Over 50 years Have Passed”. The show was split…

Presenter – Peter Robins This was a superb presentation covering virtually the whole of the British Isles, all but a couple of photographs were Peter’s own work, with the aid…

  The Narrow-Gauge Steam Railways of Nepal and Pakistan A Presentation by Geoff Warren   At our first live meeting back at Welwyn Garden City since December 2020 we were…

A local subject, in the form of “The Varying Fortunes of the Hatfield to St. Albans Railway” with Alistair Cameron, was our subject for this afternoon’s meeting via Zoom. Unfortunately,…

Continuing with our Zoom meetings currently, this evening we welcomed Rob Morland of the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust to talk to us about the current new build of a P2…

A presentation by David Jackman   Instead of the joys of the church hall, the Welwyn Garden City meeting this month was by Zoom.  Up to 39 people joined for…

Presenter: Andrew Savage MBE Following our disappointment of having to cancel our last meeting of 2021 due to the covid variant, our first meeting in the New Year was presented…

This evening we welcomed Andy Davies the Society Archivist to our Hitchin meeting ably assisted by Irene Rabbitts. The evening was split into two parts, Andy first talked to us…