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NHN Meeting Report

19th May 2025: The Stainmore route, by Chris Rowley

By NHN Northampton | 2025-05-19

Chris, a timetable planner with Network Rail, gave us a concise and detailed account of this route, which closed in 1962 but still lives on in our memories as a…

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7th April 2025: The Eric Oldham legacy Collection by John Hillier

By NHN Northampton | 2025-04-07

John spoke to us last year on the Harringworth Viaduct , but among one of his other guises besides being Vice President of the Bahamas Society, he is also Secretary…

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10th March 2025: The Vintage Trains Story and Tyseley by Mike Corbett

By NHN Northampton | 2025-03-10

Last year Mike spoke to us of his career on BR through their various workshops and depots around the network. He is is now part of the Vintage Trains organization…

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10th February 2025: The Waverley Route, by Dennis Lovett

By NHN Northampton | 2025-02-10

Today we enjoyed a fascinating afternoon listening to Dennis, a retired railwayman with more recent interests in model railways . His interest in the Waverley route began with childhood holiday…

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20th January 2025: East Coast Main Line Part 2 –  York to Edinburgh, by Stephen Gay

By NHN Northampton | 2025-01-20

In January Stephen paid us a return visit for part 2 of his journey on the ECML, this time northwards from York to Edinburgh. As is his style he ‘dropped…

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18th December 2024: AGM and Presentations of Members’ photographs

By NHN Northampton | 2024-12-18

On Monday 18th  December we held our AGM followed by a presentation of some recently discovered photographs of the Weedon Rail crash in 1951 together with a brief look at…

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25th November 2024: The Tommy Tomalin Collection Part 2, presented by  Brian Sullivan

By NHN Northampton | 2024-11-25

The photographs taken by the late Tommy Tomalin are well known not only by local railway enthusiasts, but wider afield through publications in various books over the years. During his…

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21st October 2024: End of Steam  Part 1  1966-68, a photographic presentation by  Michael Smyth

By NHN Northampton | 2024-10-24

Michael grew up in West Yorkshire and the end of steam coincided with his departure for university in the autumn of 1967, but in those years he captured film of…

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25th September 2024: Signals and Routes, a talk by Bill Davies

By NHN Northampton | 2024-09-29

This was a joint meeting with the Milton Keynes Branch of RCTS. Although Bill didn’t use this title on the day, this was another opportunity to hear of Bill’s life…

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13th May 2024: Cambridge Area Railways Part 3 by David Scudamore

By NHN Northampton | 2024-05-19

This was our only evening meeting this year, enabled by the lighter evenings in May. Branch Member David accompanied by his wife Rob, completed his three part tour of the…

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