CSL Croydon & South London branch
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That Was The Year That Was – 1964
FeaturedVirtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomGeoff Plumb returns with the next installment of his highly enjoyable series, bringing Colour Photos from his schoolboy travels during 1964, including several RCTS tours with Stanier, Bulleid and Gresley Pacifics in England and Scotland. Also featuring are shed scenes and industrials around the London area and parts of Yorkshire; holidays in the Cambrian Coast…
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Steam Variety in Northern China
FeaturedVirtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomPeter Robins returns, with a presentation showing the splendour of steam in China, the fruit of several visits that he made. Starting with an April 1988 visit which covered from Nancha in the North East to Lanzhou in the West, the show includes loco construction at Datong and Tangshan as well as the older JF/RM/SL…
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Southern Coaches – Part 1, The Maunsell Era
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomWhile locomotives - especially of the steam variety - took the glory, the coaches that they hauled were just as important. Mike King comes to tell of those introduced by the Southern Railway between the grouping of 1923 and the late 1930s, under the supervision of Richard Maunsell, its first Chief Mechanical Engineer.
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Croydon & South London Branch AGM and Members’ Images
CSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomWe resume physical, in-person, meetings on Tuesday 12th April - note change of day from previous physical and Zoom evening meetings - with our Branch Annual General Meeting for 2022, which will be followed by members' images - both digital and conventional slide projectors will be available for you to show examples of your photography.…
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Southern Steam 1897-1967 on Film
FeaturedCSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomA selection of videos from Screen Archive South East and West Sussex Record Office, with their kind permission, depicting Southern Steam, ranging from the arrival of an LBSCR Stroudley 'Gladstone' at Hove in 1897 to the departure of Bulleid Pacifics from Waterloo in 1967, on main lines and country byways. Screen Archive South East is…
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Remembering the end of Southern Steam – a personal view 50 years later
FeaturedCSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United Kingdom1967 saw the end of steam operation on the Southern Region. In the months leading up to July 1967, Des Shepherd made many visits to experience the final rites of steam operation in the south of England. Fifty years on, he decided to revisit many of the places he discovered then as well as to…
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30850 Lord Nelson: its restoration & operation
FeaturedCSL Redhill Redhill Methodist Church, Gloucester Road, Redhill, United KingdomNeil Kearns comes to tell us the story of 30850 Lord Nelson: preserved as part of the National Collection, in 1997 it was overhauled by the Eastleigh Railway Preservation Society and subsequently operated on the mainline, before moving to the Watercress Line, where it is currently awaiting a return to service.
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The Masked Gricer
FeaturedCSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomSimon's Presentation provides a pictorial diary of what he got up to during the COVID pandemic. From scanning his own and other peoples slides to photographing Modern Traction and Preserved steam. This varied show has something for everyone, 1960's steam, 1980's diesels, overseas steam and recent images of the railway today including heritage lines.