WFD Meeting Report
Branch AGM, followed by ‘The Story of the Travelling Post Office’, by Roland Gillott, 2nd April 2024
2nd April 2024 Meeting. For our 2nd April meeting we started with our Branch AGM attended by all six Committee Members and a fair sprinkling of our Branch Members as…
Read More‘That Was the Year That Was – 1973’, by Geoff Plumb, 5th March 2024
5th March 2024 Meeting On the 5th March we had our first physical meeting of the year, and it was the turn of Branch Chairman Geoff Plumb for another in…
Read More‘Railways in and Around World War Two’, by Robin Mathams, 6th February 2024
6th February 2024 Meeting On 6th February we sat down for our second Zoom presentation of the year reaching a peak viewing figure of 62 to enjoy Robin Mathams with…
Read More‘Northampton Gateway Strategic Railfreight Interchange – Project Overview and Construction Update’, by George Collinson, 2nd January 2024
2nd January 2024 Meeting. 2nd January was the date of the first meeting of the year for us and we started off with a Zoom Presentation from George Collinson, a…
Read More‘Members’ Presentations’, plus Lizzie’s Mince Pies and Sausage Rolls! 5th December 2023
5th December 2023 Meeting GWR Castle 7029 ‘Clun Castle’ with 47773 seen passing Welham Green as 1Z30 from Finsbury Park to Lincoln Central – Taken October 7th 2023. Image Credit:…
Read More‘The East Coast Main Line from Kings Cross to Edinburgh’ – Part 2, York to Edinburgh, by Stephen Gay, 7th November 2023
7th November 2023 Meeting Our November meeting saw Stephen Gay visit for the ninth time for this presentation of ‘ECML Part 2 York to Edinburgh’ which carried on from where…
Read More‘Underground Then and Now’, by Brian Hardy, 3rd October 2023
Aldersgate Station (now Barbican), Then & Now. Image Credit: Brian Hardy 3rd October 2023 Meeting. We welcomed back ever popular presenter Brian Hardy, former Head Controller at London Transport and…
Read More“The Route of ‘The Canadian’and its Branches”, by John Day, 5th September 2023
5th September 2023 Meeting. For the start of our new season we welcomed back John Day, from the Ipswich Branch, with the theme of following the Route of ‘The Canadian’,…
Read More‘That Was the Year That Was – 1971, by Geoff Plumb, 4th July 2023
A sight we had not expected to see again – steam on the main Line! The train that started the great return to steam movement that we still enjoy today…
Read More‘Mangapps – The First Thirty Years’, by John Jolly, 6th June 2023
6th June 2023 Meeting We welcomed Mangapps Railway Museum owner and curator John Jolly for a very interesting talk all about this wonderful venue near Burnham-on-Crouch. John was a farmer…
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