MHD Meeting Report

At the January Hybrid meeting our speaker was Colin Brading who presented Railways of New Zealand. Colin started by explaining that this was based on a trip he did in…

Presenter: Jeremy Harrison Our October Zoom meeting speaker was Jeremy Harrison who presented London and Westwards – photographs from the Ken Nunn collection.  Jeremy started with a background to the photographic…

Presenter: Nick Thompson At the June joint meeting with the Marlow and District Railway Society our speaker was Nick Thompson of Southern Locomotives Limited who talked to us about their…

Colin Brading, our speaker was a lifelong railwayman who had received his training in the original Temple Meads building in Bristol. As such he was more than qualified to talk…

Presenter: Gawain Nicholson For our February meeting we were joined by Gawain Nicholson, Assistant Permanent Diagramming Manager for Great Western Railway, to present “Creating a Railway Timetable”. Gawain went through…

Presenter: Dr Steve Lacey Our first Zoom meeting of 2021 saw Dr Steve Lacey, Chairman of Hitchin Branch, talk to us about 34081 “92 Squadron”. Steve started by giving us…

Our AGM was held on 21st December and was opened by our chairman Steve Ollive who welcomed everybody to the Zoom call. As with all aspects of the Society, Zoom…

Presenter: Geoff Plumb No fewer than 82 people signed in on Zoom to join our November virtual meeting, including one from Canada! They were rewarded with a wide-ranging collection of…

Presenter: Daniel Wright For our virtual meeting in October we welcomed Daniel Wright, whose talk was entitled “The Beauty of Transport”. By profession Daniel is a transport planner, and he…