Scotland [SCT]
2026/27 Winter Meetings - dates for your diary:
We are delighted to announce that, with encouragement from the Board of Trustees, the Scottish Branch is increasing its meetings this season to eight. Meetings are being held on the following dates, apart from January, all on Thursdays at 14.30:
10th September
15th October
12th November
10th December
Saturday 16th January
18th February
11th March
8th April
When the programme has been confirmed, full details will appear below.
2026 Falkirk Model Railway Exhibition:
We are pleased to report that the Branch will again have a stand at this exhibition which will be held on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd November at the Forth Valley College, Grangemouth Road, Falkirk, FK2 9AD. Volunteers to help man the stand are asked to contact the Branch Secretary ASAP.
RCTS Scottish Branch stand at 2025 Falkirk show
Our branch venue
Our Winter Meetings will be held within the Function Room, The Scots Guards Club, 2 Clifton Terrace, Edinburgh EH12 5DR.
The Club is directly across from Edinburgh Haymarket station and is also very well served by buses and trams that stop across the road. The Function Room is on the first floor. The stairway is Stairlift-equipped, no elevator/lift being fitted. The Club operates a bar on the ground floor, providing drinks and snacks from 12.30 each day, all at very reasonable prices.
All meetings will be afternoon events to encourage members and friends to support the Branch meetings and we hope to see as many of the Branch membership attending this well-equipped venue.
Callum MacLeod
RCTS Scottish Branch Chairman
What's on
Venues
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The Scots Guards Club
2 Clifton Terrace
Haymarket
Edinburgh.
EH12 5DR
Contacts
tel: 0131 623 3137 Mobile: 07774 066009
email: scotland@rcts.org.uk
2 Tryst Park, Hunter's Tryst, Fairmilehead, Edinburgh, EH10 7HD
Chairman & Treasurer
Deputy Chairman
Chris Hall
President
Ken Falconer
Committee Member
Bill Miller
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Web Co-ordinator
email: ro-scotland@rcts.org.uk
Meeting reports
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Paddle Steamer Waverley, 50 years of Preservation
Thursday 12th March. Our final meeting of the session was presented by Iain Quinn from the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society. 22nd May 1975 heralded the gifting to the nation from Caledonian…
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Locomotive and Coach Liveries (Part 3)
Friday 20th February. An unfortunate double-booking problem meant that the Scots Guard Club asked us to move our February branch meeting one day earlier. We did manage to get this…
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Photographic Review of 2024-25
Saturday 10th January 2026. When heavy snowfall prevented Branch Chairman Callum MacLeod from travelling from Crieff. Deputy Chairman Chris Hall, a new Scottish Branch Committee member, introduced Keith Sanders, a…
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Branch AGM and Members’ Presentations
Thursday 11th December. The 2025 AGM was held within our venue, the Scots Guards Club when seven members including the Chairman/Treasurer and Secretary, attended. During his introduction, the Chairman noted…
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The Atlantic Railway – the Campbeltown & Machrihanish
Thursday 13th November 2025 Gordon Casely, from near Banchory in Aberdeenshire, enlightened and educated our attendees on the “The Atlantic Railway – a look back at the Campbeltown & Machrihanish…
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Scottish Rails in Camera – 1964-2025
9th October 2025 When the scheduled speaker had to cancel because of health problems, the branch was very grateful that the RO Managing Editor Mike Robinson, at relatively short notice,…
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Railways in the 1960s and 1970s
Thursday 13th March The branch welcomed Hamish Stevenson from Bo’ness with his presentation featuring photographs from Arbroath to Alnwick taken by the late Douglas Hume and Ian Gordon, two erstwhile…
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Modern Traction Miscellany
Saturday 22nd February We welcomed Ian McInnes from Teesside for our February meeting. Using a combination of his own transparencies, some from Raymond Rourke and other sources, a large number…
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Dark Doings at Low Level
On Saturday 11th January we welcomed the return of retired railway executive Jim Summers with his presentation relating the history of the Caledonian lines through Glasgow Central Low Level. Opening…
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2024 Branch AGM & Members’ Images
On Thursday 12th December, the Branch held its 2024 AGM at the Scots Guard Club, which should have been the last under the guidance of retiring Chairman Ken Falconer, but…
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1960s Nostalgia – Scotland and North West England
On Thursday 14th November the Branch welcomed Keith Jones from Aberdeen with his presentation “1960s Nostalgia – Scotland and North West England”. Beginning with the Aberdeen/GNSR area, we saw the…
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Scotland for Steam – Part Two
Thursday 10th October 2024 To launch proceedings at its new venue, the Branch was delighted to welcome Rev’d Canon Brian Arman, Society President, with Part 2 of his “To Scotland…
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Perth Model Rail Show 2024
Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th June 2024 As usual, the branch attended this annual show, held within two large halls at the Dewar Centre in Perth’s Glover Street – about…
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Transforming the West Highland Line
Saturday 2nd March 2024 The final Branch meeting of the season featured the Branch Treasurer, Callum MacLeod, presenting “Transforming the West Highland Line”, recalling his stint as Business Manager Highland…
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Museum of Scottish Railways
Saturday 10th February 2024 The Branch welcomed Dr Becky Peacock, SRPS Museum Director, with the presentation “Museum of Scottish Railways, past, present and future”. The scope of the Museum…
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Pictorial Review of 2022 & 2023
Saturday 13th January 2024 The Branch were delighted on Saturday 13th January to welcome Branch member Keith Sanders, assisted by Davie Hall, Keith presenting his latest “Photographic Review” covering 2022…
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Early Glasgow Electrification
Tuesday 5th December 2023 The Branch were delighted to welcome on Tuesday 5th December 2023 Robert Gardiner and Andrew Boyd with the presentation “Glasgow Suburban Electrification”. This was a very…