SOE Meeting Report

Branch member John Goodrich concluded our 2022/23 season of indoor meetings on 17 May taking us on a journey from Southampton, where he has lived since 1969, to his former…

We welcomed local enthusiast Paul Gosling to our meeting on 19 April to give an illustrated account of his transport activities in 2022 using the title “Gosling’s Gallivants”. These began…

At the March meeting David Mead took us on a visit to north Portugal in 1976 to witness the end of steam traction in the Porto area. We were given…

Branch member Martin Hubbard took us through his photo archives at the February meeting of the Solent branch to give a presentation on Railways of the Past. The oldest photo…

The January meeting of the Solent Branch on 18 January began with the branch’s annual general meeting. The Committee elected for the coming year were John Godfrey (Chairman), Denis Horsman…

Our December meeting consisted on members’ slides and digital images with contributions from 8 members. Eric Nicholass commenced the evening’s proceedings with photos taken on overseas trips to Canada and…

Branch member Phil Haines entertained us at the November meeting with four home-produced videos shot in and around his former home town of Peterborough. As well as being a significant…

We welcomed David Mead to our October meeting to give a presentation on the Transport of the Isle of Man using colour slides taken between the mid 1970s and the…

Arlington (Eastleigh) Works visit 1st October 2022. Seventeen members were guided around the works by the Arlington guides Reg Spurr and Dave Titheridge (both RCTS members) were were treated to…

Our first meeting of the 2022/23 season was held on 21 October when we welcomed Stephen Bigley who gave a presentation on steam from the lineside taken on photographic charters.…