SOE Meeting Report

We welcomed Mike Pearce to our meeting on 19th November to give a talk on the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway. This was incorporated under its own Act of Parliament in…

The speaker at our October meeting was Gordon Adams on the subject of the railways of Southampton.  The London & Southampton Railway obtained its Act of Parliament in 1834 Trains…

Our September meeting was a journey from Ipswich to Nuneaton using four videos filmed by branch member Philip Haines between 2012 and 2020. At Ipswich we saw Liverpool Street -…

On Wednesday 16th July 2025 the Solent Branch had an observation day in the Cardiff Valleys. Starting from Romsey at 06:59  five of us travelled to Cardiff where we spent…

On a very hot Saturday 19 members took a toor around the Arlington Works in Eastleigh. There was an array of locomotives, coaches and wagons ranging from old to new.…

9 members gathered at Eastleigh station on the afternoon and early evening of 18th June for the Solent Branch’s annual observation evening. The 2024 report referred to a number of…

We welcomed John Day from Ipswich to our May meeting to give an illustrated talk on 40 years of raltours and special and unusual workings. The first tour illustrated was…

We welcomed Ian Bosket to our April meeting to give a talk on The Great Train Robbery. The robbery involved Wednesday 7 August’s 18:50 Glasgow Central – Euston postal service,…

Our March meeting was a presentation by Colin Brading entitled “Tracks in the Mist”, meaning long – lost railways. The first line looked at was the Brill Tramway in the…

We welcomed Steve Ollive to our February meeting to give the first part of his trilogy A- Z of Swiss Railways. This instalment covered the three main Swiss operators and…