SOE Meeting Report

The November meeting of the Solent branch was a presentation by branch member Philip Haines illustrating the sea wall in the Dawlish in different eras. Familiar locations illustrated included Starcross,…

We were pleased to welcome Gordon Adams from Reading to our October meeting to give a presentation on train ferries of World War 1 and 2. By 1916 the army…

Our first meeting of the 2024/25 season was held on 18 September when we returned to our former venue of the Eastleigh Railway Institute building for Keith Butcher’s presentation on…

8 members and 3 guests attended the informal Solent Branch observation evening on 19 June. In the period 14:55 to 18:45 nine freights were seen.   The 5 Freightliner workings were…

On an overcast and windy Saturday 20 members and 2 visitors spent a couple of hours walking around the works. It was a very interesting visit with the regular guides…

For our May meeting member Mark Greening took us back to the early 1990s in the South of England. He began by looking at passenger services where slam door emus…

The March meeting was a presentation by Tony Storey with the title “Railway Miscellany” in which he visited a number of heritage railways. The first part of the talk surveyed…

We welcomed Andy Davies, Chief Archivist of the RCTS to our February meeting to speak about the history of Leatherhead station and the station master’s house, and the RCTS library…