CHM Branch – Great Western after Hawksworth

CHM Cheltenham Victory Club, Burlington House, Lypiatt Road, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Society President Canon Brian Arman returns with more history of God's Wonderful Railway, this time looking at the post Hawksworth period into the British Railways nationalisation era.

CHM Branch – All about the letter ‘A’

CHM Cheltenham Victory Club, Burlington House, Lypiatt Road, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Mike Dodd returns with some of the steam age railway images held by The Restoration & Archiving Trust at Toddington, taken by a wide selection of a photographers. The show includes images from the railways of Argentina, Austria & Australia, followed by stations and locations across Britain all beginning with the letter "A".

CHM Branch – Royal Funeral Trains

CHM Cheltenham Victory Club, Burlington House, Lypiatt Road, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

It is famously said that when HM Queen Victoria travelled to/from Windsor by train, the driver was instructed to "proceed at no more pace than the horses would reach". Until, that is, the occasion of her funeral when there was a bit of time pressure, so the Great Western crew got a bit of a…

CHM Branch – The Hugh Ballantyne Collection

CHM Cheltenham Victory Club, Burlington House, Lypiatt Road, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Hugh Ballantyne was one of the foremost railway photographers in the country and was a member of the RCTS Photographic Portfolio. Richard Pelham brings some images from Hugh's camera.

CHM Branch – Annual Business Meeting and members’ entertain

CHM Cheltenham Victory Club, Burlington House, Lypiatt Road, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Time for our own members to unearth those images gathering dust on their computer file directories and show us what they have been up to in the past 12 months or so. We will endeavour to keep the business part of the meeting as brief as we can, but we do need to receive reports…