NHN Meeting Report
19th May 2025: The Stainmore route, by Chris Rowley
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…
Read More7th April 2025: The Eric Oldham legacy Collection by John Hillier
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…
Read More10th March 2025: The Vintage Trains Story and Tyseley by Mike Corbett
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…
Read More10th February 2025: The Waverley Route, by Dennis Lovett
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…
Read More20th January 2025: East Coast Main Line Part 2 – York to Edinburgh, by Stephen Gay
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…
Read More18th December 2024: AGM and Presentations of Members’ photographs
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…
Read More25th November 2024: The Tommy Tomalin Collection Part 2, presented by Brian Sullivan
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…
Read More21st October 2024: End of Steam Part 1 1966-68, a photographic presentation by Michael Smyth
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…
Read More25th September 2024: Signals and Routes, a talk by Bill Davies
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…
Read More13th May 2024: Cambridge Area Railways Part 3 by David Scudamore
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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