Geoff Brockett will show us a variety of locos, wagons, operators, traffic types and locations, from around the country, between 2014 and early this year. While principally a picture show, it will include some background information on the general trends that have occurred on the freight scene.
Ken Owen will describe and illustrate the route of the Conti - the through train that linked Birkenhead and Margate - then and now. An opportunity to look at the railway scene along the former Great Western mainline from Birkenhead to Banbury, and then across country via Oxford, Reading and Redhill to the South Coast…
Steve Ollive returns, to give us the second of his three part presentation describing the Railways of Switzerland. This covers the Railways from D to M inclusive, starting with the Dolder Bahn in Zurich and ending with the Transport Montreux-Vevey-Riviera, now part of the MOB organisation. As with the first part, he will give a…
Peter Robins takes us a on a tour of all the Regions of British Rail, mainly in the 1970s & 1980s, showing that we still had a long way to go to be a modern railway, as much steam-age infrastructure and practices were still in place.
