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A Modern Image – Not Quite
27-Jul-2023 @ 19:30 - 22:00
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A presentation by Peter Robins.
Peter has been a lifelong railway enthusiast whose main interest is photographing the working railway whether it be steam, or other forms of traction. He retired from the railway industry in 2016 after 42 years all of which was based on the former Western Region. He travelled extensively at home and abroad photographing the working railway scene with an emphasis of trains in their surroundings. With the advent of the HST, we were told that we now had a modern railway, but his presentation is a tour of the regions of British Rail mainly in the 1970’s & 1980’s showing that we still had a long way to go to be a modern railway, with much steam-age infrastructure and practices still in place.
Whilst he has always lived and worked in the former Western Region, the sight and sound of two Deltics (“Meld” & “Pinza”) at Kings Cross made a lasting impression on a young trainspotter and gave him a real soft spot for the Eastern Region.
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