NHN Meeting Report
19th February 2024: Swindon Works – The Collett Years, by RCTS President Canon Bryan Arman
Although billed as The Hawksworth era, following on from last year’s talk on the Collett Years, Canon Bryan retold the story of Collett’s time at Swindon as CME. The tale…
Read More22nd January 2024: Harringworth Viaduct, a talk by John Hillier
John began by comparing this viaduct with that of the nationally better known Ribblehead viaduct. They were both built for the Midland Railway in its drive north and south in…
Read More20th November 2023: Sheet Stores Junction, a talk by Ian Mitchell
This name will be familiar to those with an interest in railways, especially MR or LMS, as it forms part of the triangle at Trent Junction where the lines to…
Read MoreReports of meetings from October 2022 to October 2023
2022 20th September 2022: A joint meeting with the MK Branch was held in Roade Village Hall. Tony Ellershaw from the Ivatt Diesel Re-creation Project gave an insight into the…
Read MoreHill Railways of the Indian Subcontinent by Richard Wallace 22nd November 2021
This presentation consisted of a review of railway journeys from the foothills of the Hindu Kush and the Himalayas to the Western Ghats and the Blue Hills of the South…
Read More24th January 2022 North Staffordshire Railway Part 3
Our first meeting of the year on the 24th January was necessarily held on Zoom, when Member Brian Sullivan presented Part 3 in the series on the North Staffordshire Railway.…
Read MoreA Ninth Colour-Rail Journey
Presenter: Paul Chancellor The Northampton Branch first live meeting was held at Weston Favell village hall with an audience of about twenty members suitably distanced from each other. Paul Chancellor…
Read More19th April 2021 · ‘The Norfolk and Suffolk Joint Railway’
Presenter: Brian Sullivan The Norfolk and Suffolk Railway was unusual as it had two lines which were not connected to each other. There was a line from North Walsham to…
Read More15th March 2021 · ‘The Railways of Northamptonshire Part 6’
Presenter: Robin Cullop This part covers two branch lines – Stamford to Wansford and the small part of the M&GN near Peterborough to Thorney. Thorney is just in Northamptonshire (Soke…
Read More2nd March 2020 · ‘Railways of Zurich’
Presenter: Ken Follett On Monday 2nd March Ken Follett gave a presentation entitled “The Railways of Zurich” to a smaller than usual Northampton audience at the Wellingborough Museum. Ken has…
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