HTC Meeting Report

The subject of today’s meeting at Hitchin was The Midland Main Line from the Peter Bland Collection, presented by Bryan Cross.  This was the fifth instalment of Bryan’s work with…

UK Railways in 21st Century by Society member John Day was our topic for today’s presentation. This turned out to be a stunning afternoon with some superb photographs, mixed with…

  Geoff Brockett treated us to a varied colourful afternoon presentation featuring “The Great Eastern Railway since 1991”. We covered all lines emanating from Liverpool Street and Fenchurch Street, stopping…

Society secretary Richard Morris, our speaker this afternoon, was welcomed by members, His presentation on the West Somerset Railway obviously proved very popular. We started with the history of the…

Paul Chancellor, our speaker this afternoon, presented “My Life as Spotter” his 12th in the series of his Colour Rail Journeys, showing his life watching and photographing trains. After being…

This afternoon we welcomed back Geoff Plumb, with his presentation “That was the year that was 1972”. After a few opening photographs taken  in Germany and here at home, with…

At today’s meeting David Scudamore brought us Part 2 of his presentation on “Cambridge Area Railways, Yesterday and Today.” We started with a relatively early (1930’s) view of Cambridge station…

“Sir Nigel Gresley, His Life and Work” was the subject Simon Martin presented to us this afternoon, attracting our largest meeting attendance for several years. Starting with a look at…

This afternoon’s presentation “The Caledonian Railway”, presented by Roger Pidgeon, was a full coverage of this railway throughout its life. (1845 – 1923). We covered its many routes from Carlisle…

Our meeting this afternoon started with the Branch AGM for which we had one of our best AGM attendances. This was followed by a colourful and lively presentation by our…