CHR Chichester branch
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A Toss of the Coin – My Life as a Railway Professional
CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomDavid says - The talk is called 'A Toss of the Coin' as one shaped my railway career to the operating rather than marketing side and I would cover my railway training at Old Oak Common in the late 50s and WR training in 1961-4, SM and AM roles in South Wales in 1960s, ten…
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Mid Hants Archive Alresford to Winchester Jct – Part 2 (Follows a short AGM)
CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomA second selection of photographs from the Watercress Line archives, continuing our journey down the line from Alresford to Winchester Junction and taking a look at local passenger and goods services and main line diversions.
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Through the Lens, Through the Years – Cornwall
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomNigel says - 'We start way down west in Penzance and then work our way east, we'll visit the branch lines to St Ives, Falmouth (of course), Newquay and Looe. We'll also look at the clay lines and the Bodmin & Wenford Railway. We cross the border into Plymouth and finish on the Gunnislake branch,…
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Steam in Africa
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomLive from Germany Guenter treats us to an evening of steam. Beginning with the South African Railway, in the second half he moves on to the National Railways of Zimbabwe, East African Railways in Kenya, Tanzania and Eritrea
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Great Train Robbery 1963
CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomIan's talk on the robbery is the result of years of research and fact finding together with his personal goal being, how on earth do you stop a express train doing 95 miles per hour in the middle of nowhere and drive it yourself ?? Ian brings a 1960’s colour light signal with him to…
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An evening with my Father’s (Derek Cross) slides
CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomA LMR black and white journey from Euston to Carlisle between 1958-1968.
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Lynton & Barnstaple Railway
CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom"The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow". The first half of Mike's talk covers the period from pre 1898 (when the line opened) to the closure in 1935. The second half covers from 1935 up to the present day plus plans for the future.
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An American Rail Rover
CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomJohn's talk will look at railway operations across the USA from the East Coast across to Chicago, the Mid-West to the rocky mountains. North to the Canadian border and south through the Sierra Nevada's, the high desert to the Californian Tehachapi range to San Francisco and through the Cajon mountains towards Los Angeles. Featuring long…
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The Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway
CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomSimon Bowden traces the history of the railway running through the beautiful mid Wales countryside. NOTE THIS IS A CHANGE TO OUR PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED MEETING, AS THE ORIGINAL SPEAKER IS NOT NOW ABLE TO COME TO CHICHESTER ON THIS DATE.
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The Coming of the Railway to Southampton
CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomThe talk will cover the idea of building the London & Southampton Railway and its subsequent construction with a link to Portsmouth (Gosport), the proposal and subsequent extensions from Woking through Guilford to Havant and the rival fighting with the LB&SCR from the east. It also covers subsequent extensions westwards including Castleman’s Corkscrew.
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Railways of Col Holman Stephens
CHR Bassil Shippam Centre Tozer Way, St Pancras, Chichester, West Sussex, United KingdomColonel Stephens and the economical railway While the ‘Colonel Stephens Railways’ have gained a reputation for being somewhat esoteric, down at heel and decrepit, this caricature is perhaps a bit unfair. The Victorian entrepreneur Lt-Colonel Holman Fred Stephens (1868-1931) was a great believer in the potential of low-cost railways, and was involved in upwards of…
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Steam in the British Isles
The show starts with 10 b&w shots in 1962, and then continues all in colour starting in Northern Ireland. Moving to Scotland, we then continue down through northern England as far as the Peak district, then via Crewe into Wales, before moving on to South Western & the South of England. We end around the…