ESX Meeting Report
Harwich for the Continent – The Rail Ferries
Presenter: Chris Turland Meeting Held at Shenfield Parish Hall Chris spent most of his life at sea, sailing all over the world, but a significant part was served on the…
Read MoreThe Electric Railways of Merseyside
Presenter: Charles Roberts Meeting Held via Zoom Charles’s ability to talk almost non-stop whilst holding the interest of an audience is admirable – worthy of a place on BBC’s Just…
Read MoreSouthend Corporation Trams 1901-1942
Presenter: Richard Delahoy Meeting Held via Zoom For a relatively small town Southend-on-Sea has an interesting transport history – two rival rail routes (LT&S and GE) and two tram systems,…
Read MoreBranch AGM & Members’ Slides
Meeting Held via Zoom The meeting was well attended. The business was conducted quickly (reports having been previously circulated) and the necessary votes unanimously agreed. Steve Hewitt our Fixtures Secretary…
Read MoreRail Freight Group – The Opportunities and Challenges
Presenter: Maggie Simpson Meeting Held at Shenfield Parish Hall Maggie gave us an excellent Zoom presentation a year ago; she kindly accepted our invitation to visit us at Shenfield for…
Read MoreThat Was the Year That Was – 1963
Presenter: Geoff Plumb Meeting Held at Shenfield Parish Hall Many of us are old enough to remember the year in question and fortunate enough to have savoured it. Geoff was…
Read MorePole to Pole
Presenter: John Day Meeting Held at Shenfield Parish Hall September saw our first physical meeting since February 2020 and it was a pleasure to get back to our meeting place…
Read MoreThe Railways of Southern France
Presenter: Michael Bunn Virtual Meeting via Zoom Michael served us up a veritable feast. Although the scope was necessarily slightly limited geographically, Michael covered a period from the days of…
Read MoreConfessions of a Narrow-Minded Enthusiast
Presenter: Colin Brading Virtual Meeting via Zoom Colin has spoken to us before; this time his presentation was about narrow gauge. He focused on the smaller end of the topic…
Read MoreRailways of The Raj -How The Age Of Steam Transformed India
Presenter: Christian Wolmar Virtual Meeting via Zoom The initial introduction of railways was down to the East India Company in the late 1840s and it was 1857 before the British…
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