NHN Meeting Report

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Presenters: David and Roberta Scudamore David and Roberta Scudamore gave almost thirty Members and friends an excellent talk on “The Railways of Cambridge, Part 1”, at Weston Favell on 21st…

Presenter: Lester Hillman Of the 25 or so persons present at Weston Favell on 10th February 2020 to listen to Lester Hillman give a presentation headed “The Bank Job”, there…

Presenter: David Hanger For our first evening Meeting of 2020, David Hanger came from Wellingborough to give a talk and slide show on Funicular Railways. Of these there were plenty…

Presenter: Chris Nettleton A fair sized attendance was present at Wellingborough Castle Museum on Monday, 13th January. The subject was Chris Nettleton’s presentation of ”Steam in and around York, Part…