Harwich for the Continent – The Rail Ferries

ESX Shenfield Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, United Kingdom

Coming from Ipswich Chris has had a lifelong interest in all things Transport. He is a local historian, presenter and canal artist, and has been presenting for over 20 years. An ex seaman, Chris actually worked on most of the ships discussed within his presentation. Chris is the current chair of the trustees of the…

No Meeting – Easter Monday

ESX Shenfield Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, United Kingdom

There will be no meeting in April due to the Easter holidays

Visit to Mangapps Railway Museum

Mangapps Railway Museum Southminster RoadEssex, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, United Kingdom

This is a joint visit with the South East Essex Railway Society (SEERs) who are allowing South Essex RCTS members to join their visit to Mangapps. The cost is £12 with Fish and Chips available at an extra charge (must be pre-ordered). To book, please contact Adrian Houghton by email ( a.houghton245@btinternet.com) stating you are…

£12

An Evening with Father’s Slides

ESX Shenfield Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, United Kingdom

The speaker tonight is David Cross lives locally in Brentwood. He is the son of Derek Cross a photographer who took many photographs and wrote a number of books in the Sixties and Seventies. David now holds his collection. This evening he will show slides of diesels at work on the four BR Regions in…

Roaming Around London with a Camera

ESX Shenfield Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, United Kingdom

Those of us who live in London are very lucky for the sheer variety of rolling stock and liveries that can be seen and photographed. This is a quick-fire show of images taken in Greater London over the last two to three years that showcase that variety, with an emphasis on the new and unusual.…

The Current Day Scene in Europe

ESX Shenfield Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, United Kingdom

The show will feature pictures of the modern scene in Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Luxembourg and Baltic States. Brian spent 41 years with BR in operations control at such places as Liverpool Lime St, Rugby, Stoke on Trent, Manchester Victoria, London Euston, Orpington Beckenham, London Waterloo ending up with Railtrack in Blackfriars Road,…

AGM and Members Slides

ESX Shenfield Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, United Kingdom

The meeting will be held at Shenfield Parish Hall but the formal AGM part of the evening will be held as a Hybrid meeting in order to be as inclusive as possible. Remote comments and contributions will, in general, only be possible via the Zoom 'Chat' function. Should you wish to remotely address the meeting…

The Railways of Mid-Anglia, 1845 to 2023

Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United Kingdom

An exploration of the railway network of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire: how and why it developed in the way it did and the impact the railways have had on the region’s landscape, towns (particularly the major rail centres of Cambridge, March and Peterborough), industries and agriculture, as well as motive power and rolling stock. Until taking…

Roger Harrison’s East Anglian Railways

Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United Kingdom

Roger Harrison was an avid and loyal member of the Norfolk Railway Society from its inception in 1955 until he passed away in 2010. He was extraordinarily generous to the Society in his will, not only with a sizeable donation to Society funds, but also in making a bequest of his LNER photos and negatives…

Railway Engineering; A Driver’s Eye View

ESX Shenfield Shenfield Parish Hall, 60 Hutton Road, Shenfield, United Kingdom

Andy Grimmett started on the railway at Stratford MPD in Sept 1974. By 1979 he had qualified as a driver and progressed through the links driving a large variety of traction. With the partial closure of Stratford Depot in Jan 1994, he decided to move with 13 other drivers to Ilford Car Sheds where he…