CHM Meeting Report

It was a great pleasure to welcome Society President, Revd Canon Brian Arman on 19th January with his presentation “Great Western, The Collett Years”. Charles B Collett assumed the role…

The 15th December meeting had an attendance of 16 despite fore knowledge that the visiting speaker was unwell, and with the awful pavement conditions across Cheltenham. Stephen Wilson produced a…

Lee Davies brought us Thirty Years on the Footplate on 20th October. This was a view of his career to date working for the railway system in the UK. Starting…

We opened our 2022/23 season with a presentation on The Development of Railways in Gloucester and Gloucestershire by Tony Conder. The Birmingham and Gloucester arrived first. The Bristol and Gloucester…

The Branch Annual Business Meeting took place on 21st April. Reports were received from the committee on Branch activities and financial transactions during the previous 12 months, a much improved…

Steve Ollive was welcomed back here on 17th March to present his coverage of the 2018 Anniversary Tour in which he and a small group of RCTS friends, including Richard…

Malcolm Garner came on Thursday 17th February to describe the circumstances surrounding the “Hixon Level Crossing Disaster – 1968”. In the 1960s British Railways embarked on a programme of replacing…

“The Final Journey – the Untold Story of Funeral Trains” was the subject for Nicolas Wheatley on 20th January. Nicolas has, since his last visit, published a book with this…

Ian Boskett from Tewkesbury has studied the events of the early hours of 8th August 1963 and the subsequent investigations and enquiries and presented his thoughts on The Great Train…