‘Railways and Me – Full Circle’ – by John Dyer.

This will be a fairly wide-ranging personal perspective which might be described as ‘Bidston, Birkenhead and Beyond’.  It starts with my interest in steam railways as a youth and railways generally, which was kindled locally on Merseyside where I was born and bred, and gradually expanding to other locations further afield.  There are lots of photographs (mainly of steam, but with a few diesels and electrics thrown in) from the mid-1950s onwards, through to my time with the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway. Most of it is late 50s early 60s with my own black and white photographs and eventually covers most areas of the UK as my horizons widened.

44687 (Stanier 4-6-0 Class 5) Caprotti Black 5 at Chester General – 15 October 1960. Image Credit: John Dyer

Please note this is a Zoom virtual meeting – joining from 19:15 for a 19:30 start.