Rewarded by a high turnout for this meeting, Richard, a non resident of Northampton, put his head in the lion’s mouth by presenting an illustrated talk on discovering abandoned bits…

We held our AGM in December last year, with no change in officers or Committee! Afterwards, as it was 50 years since the Great Cavalcade at Shildon, the Chairman showed…

Michael presented an excellent Part 1 when he was photographing steam in his native West Yorkshire during his last school days, prior to leaving for University . In Part 2,…

The station lost its “Castle” suffix in the 1960s, as a result of the loss of the only other station (Bridge Street) in 1964, and a rebranding as part of…

Around 30 members from the Northampton and Milton Keynes Branches met for our annual joint meeting at Roade Village Hall on 23rd September for a presentation by Robin Cullup on ‘The…

Chris, a timetable planner with Network Rail, gave us a concise and detailed account of this route, which closed in 1962 but still lives on in our memories as a…

John spoke to us last year on the Harringworth Viaduct , but among one of his other guises besides being Vice President of the Bahamas Society, he is also Secretary…

Last year Mike spoke to us of his career on BR through their various workshops and depots around the network. He is is now part of the Vintage Trains organization…

Today we enjoyed a fascinating afternoon listening to Dennis, a retired railwayman with more recent interests in model railways . His interest in the Waverley route began with childhood holiday…

In January Stephen paid us a return visit for part 2 of his journey on the ECML, this time northwards from York to Edinburgh. As is his style he ‘dropped…

On Monday 18th  December we held our AGM followed by a presentation of some recently discovered photographs of the Weedon Rail crash in 1951 together with a brief look at…

The photographs taken by the late Tommy Tomalin are well known not only by local railway enthusiasts, but wider afield through publications in various books over the years. During his…

Michael grew up in West Yorkshire and the end of steam coincided with his departure for university in the autumn of 1967, but in those years he captured film of…

This was a joint meeting with the Milton Keynes Branch of RCTS. Although Bill didn’t use this title on the day, this was another opportunity to hear of Bill’s life…

This was our only evening meeting this year, enabled by the lighter evenings in May. Branch Member David accompanied by his wife Rob, completed his three part tour of the…

Mike was a graduate entrant to a career in Engineering with BR. Having grown up close to the railway at Northwich and witnessing 8Fs and 04s on freights heading to…

Although billed as The Hawksworth era, following on from last year’s talk on the Collett Years, Canon Brian retold the story of Collett’s time at Swindon as CME. The tale…

John began by comparing this viaduct with that of the nationally better known Ribblehead viaduct. They were both built for the Midland Railway in its drive north and south in…

This name will be familiar to those with an interest in railways, especially MR or LMS, as it forms part of the triangle at Trent Junction where the lines to…

2022 20th September 2022:  A joint meeting with the MK Branch was held in Roade Village Hall. Tony Ellershaw from the Ivatt Diesel Re-creation Project gave an insight into the…

This presentation consisted of a review of railway journeys from the foothills of the Hindu Kush and the Himalayas to the Western Ghats and the Blue Hills of the South…

Our first meeting of the year on the 24th January was necessarily held on Zoom, when Member Brian Sullivan presented Part 3 in the series on the North Staffordshire Railway.…