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“An Evening with Father’s Slides” by David Cross

Name: “An Evening with Father’s Slides” by David Cross
Start: 2024-04-09T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-04-09T22:00:00+01:00
Location: CBR Fulbourn, Cambridge

Tue 9th April @ 19:30 - 22:00

In 1960, un-named English Electric Type 4 No. D216 (named Campania in May 1962) heads South on an express to Euston, unusually with an LNER-design gangwayed brake leading the formation, alongside the newly-opened M1 motorway. In the background can be seen the Daventry radio masts where, in 1935, Robert Watson-Watt and Arnold Wilkins carried out their famous demonstration of the detection of an aircraft by radio echoes - and the invention of radar. Photo: Derek Cross, courtesy David Cross.

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David presents his father’s (Derek Cross) magnificent photographs in a slide show of mainly steam but with some pictures of early diesels. The West Coast route from London to Carlisle will be followed, albeit with a bias to photographs in the Northern Fells. In addition there are some images from North London, North Wales and also of ex-GWR and LNER locomotives.

Details

Date:: Tue 9th April
Time:: 19:30 - 22:00

Organiser

CBR Cambridge branch

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Venue

: CBR Fulbourn, Cambridge
: The Swifts, Haggis Gap
Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB21 5HD United Kingdom + Google Map
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