EMD East Midlands branch
Deltics: 1965 to the present day – Richard Walsh
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom20 years of high speed railways in UK – David Hanger
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom
East Coast main Line part 2 – North from York – Stephen Gay
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomWe welcome back Stephen Gay who will present his part 2 of the talks about the ECML
Social evening – Mince pies and members’ slides in the Dickens Suite
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomBring slides or Powerpont presentations for short talks
Euston to Carlisle late fifties early sixties photos – preceded by Branch AGM – David Cross
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomDavid will entertain us with a selection of his famous father's slides (Derek Cross)
The Welshpool & Llanfair Railway – Roger Cragg
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomA look at the history and present operation of the Welshpool and Llanfair Railway
Visit to Nottingham Express transit depot
Nottingham tram depot Wilkinson Street, Nottingham, United KingdomA visit to the tram depot at Wilkinson Street
China steam in the enthusiast era – Robin Gibbons
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomIn a change to the advertised programme Robin will present his talk It is an augmented slide show with plenty of images but with a lot of information. It covers mainly the enthusiast era (roughly 1976 - 2012) but with a little bit of more historic information to put things in context.
That was the year that was – 1962 – Geoff Plumb
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomA look at the UK railway scene in 1962
Testing trains on BR since the 1950s – Dave Coxon
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomThe talk encompasses the early days of Nationalisation and looks of the improvements to steam engines, the introduction of the 'Modernisation Plan' and new diesels and the pioneering work undertaken at the RTC Derby. The last part reviews numerous tests undertaken in Dave's career at the RTC
Funicular Railways – David Hanger
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomA return visit by David who will present Funicular Railways - This talk covers the history of cable haulage of tramways and railways before looking at each of the funicular railways in the UK plus a number in Europe
GW route from Penzance to Padstow – Richard Binding
EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United KingdomA return visit from Richard who will enlighten us about the Great Western route from Penzance to Padstow