TVY Meeting Report

This presentation was by Andrew Kaye who is a member of the Thames Valley Group. Although now living in the UK, Andrew was brought up in Sudbury, Ontario and spent…

The first part of the presentation was based on a number of organized trips to East Anglia in 2012 and 2018 and covered railways of all gauges and size. The…

The presentation consisted of two parts. The first covered the early history of diesel locomotives in the UK pre WW2 and the building of the two LMS Diesels and their…

Brian Sullivan returned to give us a further selection of the historic photos taken by Tommy Tomalin.  This talk covered the North Staffs lines that ran from Stoke-on-Trent to Stone,…

We welcomed Colin Hale who is the Current Chair of the LMS-Patriot Project for our April Meeting. The presentation commenced with a brief history of the Patriot locomotives. The first…

This talk celebrated 150 years of the completion of the extension to Bath of the Somerset and Dorset Railway. The presenter was Mike Beale who has been a member of…

For the second afternoon meeting of the season our speaker was Colin Brading who had previously given us a number of presentations. On this occasion he used the names of…

Our speaker for our first meeting of the year was Branch Chairman Phil Darlaston whose photographic presentation ‘Rail Reminiscences’ covered 50 years of his photography from 1973 to 2023 encompassing…

  This months presentation by one of own members Stuart Hicks who took part in a group visit to see as much as possible of the railways which now operate…

We welcomed back Chris Youett for the  second part of a colour slide presentation following the route of the Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway to Bournemouth It…