TVY Meeting Report

Presenter: Stuart Hicks For our September Zoom meeting our Branch Member and Secretary Stuart Hicks took us on a tour of his overseas trips during 2020. He and his family had…

Presenter: Laurence Waters. Laurence was a professional photographer and is now the Honorary photographic archivist for the Great Western Trust at the Didcot Railway Centre. He has also written several…

Presenter: Raymond Schofield Our speaker this evening introduced his talk as one he had prepared for the 175th anniversary of the railway reaching London from York and the inaugural run…

Presenter: Robert Pritchard – Fixtures Secretary, Sheffield Branch. The Thames Valley branch welcomed as its speaker for this month Robert Pritchard, a name known to many as Editor, Todays Railways…

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…