TVY Meeting Report

Presenter: Murray Lewis – RCTS Member, Thames Valley Branch The branch welcomed “one of its own” to present via Zoom a talk on “The North London Railway”. Murray by way…

Presenter: Mark Hopwood CBE – Managing Director GWR The Thames Valley Branch welcomed Mark Hopwood for this evenings talk. In addition to Mark there were some 81 other persons on…

Presenter: Colin Brading The Speaker for the January meeting on the subject of Railways of the Isle of Man, which had an audience of 54 people, was Colin Brading. Colin…

The first part of the December meeting was another new experience, the branch AGM using the Zoom system. Due process was carried out with the current committee being re-elected en…

A Winter Weekend in Crewe Presenter: Andy Vernon Presenting first was branch member Andy Vernon. Travelling by car from the Thames Valley on a Thursday afternoon in late January 2020,…

Presenter: John Sreeves The branch welcomed back John Sreeves, albeit this time via ZOOM for two evenings in October to give a talk, postponed from March earlier this year. One…

Presenter: Gordon Adams Due to Covid-19 our first meeting of the new season was not in the Didcot Civic Hall, but virtually by ZOOM, probably the first of four monthly…

The RCTS team of Phil Darlaston, John Temple,N igel Farebrother, Stuart Hicks and Murray Lewis girded their loins to do battle in the annual quiz match away to our friends…

Presenter: Mike Beale For our February meeting our venue was converted into a Tardis as Mike Beale transported us back for a 1950’s and 1960’s look at steam in and…

Presenter: Colin Brading For the first meeting of 2020, we welcomed back Colin Brading, with his talk on the Metropolitan Railway. As is widely known, this was the world’s first…