ESX South Essex branch

Physical meeting at Shenfield Parish Hall which will also be available on Zoom as a Hybrid Meeting. The history of the NER was made-up of several earlier and smaller individual railways. The Tanfield Railway, originally a wagonway dating from as early as 1725, the iconic Stockton and Darlington Railway, the Clarence Railway, Stanhope & Tyne…

Physical meeting at Shenfield Parish Hall which will also be available on Zoom as a Hybrid Meeting. In 1982 BR created new business units. Passenger Services were split into InterCity, Network SouthEast and Provincial Services, freight was split into Trainload, Speedlink and Freightliner and a parcels sector was created. Mervyn Rogers will explore how this…

Physical meeting at Shenfield Parish Hall which will also be available on Zoom as a Hybrid Meeting. This presentation explains and records the changing fortunes of the Settle and Carlisle line from the last days of steam in the 1960s, through the years of decline towards expected closure, its reprieve in 1989 and subsequent resurgence.…

Physical meeting at Shenfield Parish Hall which will also be available on Zoom as a Hybrid Meeting.  Please note that this talk by Peter Robins replaces the originally listed talk on 21st Century Steam  

Remote Speaker Physical meeting at Shenfield Parish Hall which will also be available on Zoom as a Hybrid Meeting. Using material from Online Transport Archive, Charles will show a selection of colour images from this area. The material is drawn from a number of key collections in the Archive, most notably John McCann, Charles Firminger…

Physical meeting at Shenfield Parish Hall which will also be available on Zoom as a Hybrid Meeting. Jim grew up in Stepney Green and his love of railways started when his father took him to Kings Cross to 'watch the trains'. He remembers seeing A3 Pacifics ‘Pretty Polly’ and ‘Blair Athol’. The latter painted in…

Physical meeting at Shenfield Parish Hall some parts of which will also be available on Zoom as a Hybrid Meeting. The meeting will commence with the AGM itself  followed by member's digital images all of which will be available also via Zoom. We will show member's 35mm slides in the hall at the end of…

This presentation, by our own Iain Scotchman covers Iain's visit to the Greatest Gathering in Derby to celebrate 200 years of the railways Physical meeting at Shenfield Parish Hall also available on Zoom as a Hybrid Meeting.

Nick Garnham will tell us about an epic journey the first step of which is to board a train at Peterborough. It describes the journey, all by rail, from Peterborough to Beijing in 2019. The trains, the food, the people, and on train life are all illustrated, as are many of the stations and locomotives…

This presentation outlines the history and development of Stratford depot, then describes the depot in the late 1980s and his experiences as an engineering trainee there.  The various workings of the depot are detailed, together with the area it served at the time.  It closes with the decline and eventual closure of the depot. Hugh…