HTC Meeting Report

We finished our programme for 2024 on a high, at Digswell, with our largest attendance of the year. Our speaker, Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch member George Howe, talked…

Tonight, for our last meeting before moving to a new venue in Hitchin, we welcomed back Chris Jones, who we thank for adapting the advertised presentation into this slightly shorter…

One of our largest attendances of the year came to see Dave Goodyear’s presentation “Colchester in the Age of Steam”. This was a history lesson on the range of locomotives…

Society trustee Paul Chancellor was our speaker tonight with his 11th Colour-Rail journey. As usual with Paul, we saw some excellent photographs many were his own along with a selection…

Today the Branch membership was treated to their second foreign tour this month – today we went travelling with Michael Smyth to see his “Travels around Ukraine by Steam”. Michael…

Our meeting tonight was superb and thoroughly entertaining. Dave Longman talked about his solo trips to China to photograph steam. He visited various coal mines and steel works on several…

Today we welcomed back Stephen Gay from Sheffield with part 2 of his presentation “Through Kirton Tunnel – Kirton Lindsey to Cleethorpes”. The talk was set in and around the…

Tonight, we thank Andy Grimmett for his presentation “A Drivers Eye View – 48 years on the Railway”, having arrived in Hitchin amid a torrential downpour, with parts of the…

This afternoon’s meeting presented by Rob Freeman was a Western European miscellany of the railways in France, Germany and Belgium during the 1980 & 1990’s. Starting in Paris, where else…

A nostalgic trip into past for our members at this evening’s meeting, with Michael Smyth’s presentation “The Deltics, Worthy Successors to the A4’s” these iconic locomotives coupled with our closeness…