SRY Meeting Report
21 September 2023 – Preserving the Mid Hants Railway 1973 to 1985 by Keith Brown, Stationmaster, Medstead and Four Marks
Over the Alps from Alton! You have to be well into your eighth decade to be able to remember taking that mysterious cross-country route west from Alton, over the Hampshire…
Read MoreSignalling High Speed Connections Across Europe by Chris McCandless-Stone, Fleet Performance Manager, Eurostar
Chris briefly introduced himself and his railway credentials. He began his railway career at age 16 and already has 21 years experience. He is not a signalling engineer himself but…
Read MoreRamblings of a Railwayman by Geoff Burch
Geoff Burch grew up beside the Portsmouth main line. Like many of his school peers he started trainspotting, got hold of a cheap Ian Allan ABC spotters book and took…
Read MoreNational Railway Museum – Vision 2025 by Anthony Coulls, Senior Curator of Rail Transport & Technology, National Railway Museum
Oh, the tribulations and challenges of managing collections! The National Railway Museum (NRM) has not perhaps had the best of press recently. In the enthusiast world there have been mutterings…
Read MoreTunnel Vision – The History of the Metropolitan Railway 1863 to 2023 by Colin Brading
The presentation began with a ‘journey planner’ mapping out what Colin would cover in his talk, from the introduction and origins, through expansion and electrification, and suburban development, right up…
Read MoreA Life on the Railways by Tim Shoveller, Regional Managing Director, Northwest and Central Region of Network Rail
Tim Shoveller is still quite a young man but, in his working life as a railwayman, he has not only got to the top but packed in an incredible amount…
Read MoreToy Train to the Clouds, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway by Major Paul Whittle
Paul introduced himself and his involvement with the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) currently as Vice-Chair of the DHR Society. He explained the reasons for having the hill stations during the…
Read MoreClaire Mann, Managing Director, South Western Railway
It is winter, and the Gilbert and Sullivan season. In ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ (a well-known Gilbert & Sullivan comic opera) a constable bewails the challenges of his professional life…
Read MoreFrom Nationalisation to Great British Railways by Fraser Pithie
A potentially exciting new Title, but as Fraser Pithie explained in an electrifying lecture, the launch of Great British Railways, having recently been put on hold, may not now happen. …
Read More34081 92 Squadron by Dr Steve Lacey
Our first meeting of the 2022-2023 season began with a minute’s silence out of respect for her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The chairman welcomed all to the meeting and…
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