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  • 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…

  • Baltic Coast Express – A pictorial journey through Germany and Poland to Finland

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

    In 1990, Enthusiast Holidays ran a tour called the "Baltic Coast Express" from London via Poland, the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. The return journey was via Finland, Sweden and Denmark. It was only the second major railway tour to Russia and whilst there were a few minor…

  • The Great Eastern Railway: ‘Rarely other than Idiosynchratic’

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

    Following the openings, in successive years, of the significant London main line stations at London Bridge, Euston and then Paddington, there followed a minor station in Mile End as the terminus of a railway planned to link the capital to Norwich via Colchester and Ipswich. Another early railway was to use the same terminus, but…

  • The Lost Railways of Essex

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

    This will be a 'Double Header' presentation with contributions from both Tony Crosby and Tim Murphy. Tony Crosby will examine the history, archaeology and heritage of the three main branch lines of the north-west of the county - the Bishop’s Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree Branch, the Saffron Walden Branch and the Elsenham & Thaxted Light…

  • The Year 2000 – UK and Overseas

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

    Adrian's talk comprises of a chronological tour of pictures worldwide and in the UK in the first half of 2000. It visits: Cambodia, Myanmar, Denmark, Cuba and  Canada. Interspersed are numerous UK scenes, many of which are not repeatable due to replacement by more modern stock. The preserved scene is also covered.  Adrian has over…

  • The New Essex Lines of the GER

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

    Nathaniel has be interested in railways for all of his life. From early days of 'Thomas the Tank Engine' he has been hooked on railways and their history. He became a station adopter at Battlesbridge station in 2003. His railway career started with National Express East Anglia as a train dispatcher at Southend Victoria -…

  • British Rail in the early 1980s – The Swansong of Corporate Identity

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

    Mervyn joined British Rail after university in September 1973 as a Traffic Management Trainee based in the Doncaster Divisional Management Office. His first two roles after training were Traffic Assistant at Shirebrook and then shift manager of freight operations on Tees-side based in Tees Yard. He moved south in 1979, becoming Area Passenger and Parcels…

  • That Was The Year That Was: 1966

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

    1966 was a busy year for Geoff whilst still a schoolboy, covering a considerable amount of the country. This includes scenes on various North Wales Narrow Gauge Lines and the Cambrian Coast, holidays in the north west of England and several RCTS railtours. These include the ’Somerset & Dorset Farewell’, the ‘Longmoor Military Railtour’ (which…

  • Off the Beaten (Railway) Track 2023

    Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United Kingdom

    Our own Iain Scotchman will tell us about his 2023 travels over the railways in four less-travelled areas of the world: Cambodia, Alaska, Morocco and Argentina. The AGM and Members slides previously scheduled for this meeting, will now be held on 18th March 2024 and will be a physical meeting at Shenfield Parish Hall