SOE Meeting Report

The late unavailability of the booked speaker for our May meeting led to a last minute change to the programme with substitutes being provided by our colleagues at the Chichester…

The speaker at the April meeting of the Solent Branch was Jeremy Segrott who gave a presentation on South Wales in Transition. This covered the period from 2016 to the…

Colin Brading returned to the Solent Branch in March to give a second talk on “Tracks in the Mist”, the title referring to long-lost railways. The first line looked at…

Steve Ollive made a return visit to the Solent branch in February to continue his A – Z of Swiss Railways, this time focussing on those beginning with the letters…

We welcomed Stephen Bigley to our January meeting to give a talk on the Railways of South Wales. A quick look at a map of South Wales in the pre-grouping…

Our meeting on 17 December followed the traditional format of 15 minute presentations by members. Ian Knight began the proceedings illustrating visits he made to Ireland in the late 1990s…

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…