BTL Meeting Report
14 April 2023 ‘East Coast Main Line – King’s Cross to York’ Presented by Stephen Gay.
41 members and guests attended a talk by Steven Gay: Kings Cross to York, The East coast mainline. Kings Cross in the 70’s still had plenty of Deltics and other…
Read More3 March 2023 A.G.M. followed by ‘A Roger Newman Tribute’ Presented by Brian Arman.
Brian Arman: Tribute to Roger Newman After a short AGM, Branch Chairman Brian Arman Presented the photographs of Roger Newman. These Photos were from the 1960’s period. We were privileged…
Read More3 February 2023 ‘Steam and Semaphores to Penzance’ by Nick Dudman.
Maurice Dunman’s excellent slides, presented by his son Nick. 68 members were present. Nick began the talk by telling us how his father started between 1958 and 1965 The photos…
Read More6 January 2023 ‘To Scotland for Steam’ by Brian Arman.
Brian split the Scottish Railways into two halves, planning to deal with the North British and Great Northern of Scotland Railway this year, and hopefully deal with Caledonian and the…
Read More2 December 2022 ‘Railway Holidays in the West Country Part 2’ with Stuart Warr
Stuart Warr was due to give a presentation ‘Railway Holidays in The West Country Pt 2 – Devon & Somerset’. Due to bad weather in South Wales, Stuart was not…
Read More4 November 2022 ‘That Was The Year That Was 1963’ By Geoff Plumb
Geoff opened the presentation by showing black & white photos of trains, steam & DMU at various locations north of London followed by shots of Great Western & Standard Class…
Read MoreSteam in West Wales
Friday 7th October 2022 Steam in West Wales by Gerry Nichols 47 members attending at St Theresa’s Church Hall, Filton, Bristol Gerry started to the west of Swansea with the…
Read MoreThe Rhymney Railway
The Rhymney Railway by Peter Fortune Secretary of the South Wales RCTS Branch The route was from Rhymney to Cardiff via the valleys originally using running rights to the Taff…
Read More7th January 2022 – Swindon Works the Final Years
The meeting on January 7th of the Bristol Group saw 37 members assembled to listen to RCTS President and Branch chairman Revd Canon Brian Arman’s talk on Swindon Works part…
Read More1st April 2022 – Late BR Steam around Bristol
RCTS Meeting 1st April 2022 Held at St Theresa’s Hall in Filton, our speaker was Ian Bennett, showing slides taken by the late Maurice Deans and some he had purchased,…
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