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  • Lineside observation at Bedford (Midland) station

    Bedford Station Ashburnham Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

    Lineside observation at Bedford Midland station from 17:00. This is the mainline station in Bedford, served by East Midlands Railway and GTR Thameslink services. An evening with like minded railway enthusiasts watching the railway scene. We expect that many of the new Class 810 units will be in service with EMR by August and there…

  • ‘Six Months at Stratford – Recollections from 1988’

    MKY Milton Keynes Network Rail - The Quadrant: MK, Elder Gate, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

    Hugh Driscoll recounts his time at Stratford Depot, also covering the origins and development of the depot and its subsequent decline and closure.

  • ‘The Future of UK Locomotive Operations’

    MKY Milton Keynes Network Rail - The Quadrant: MK, Elder Gate, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

    Karl Watts, founder and MD of Railmotive and also the founder, co-owner and former CEO of the Rail Operations Group (ROG) group of companies, talks about pioneering the development and procurement of the UK’s fleet of Class 93 tri-mode locomotives and a number of other revolutionary and game-changing initiatives to deliver rail industry modernisation.

  • ‘Eurostar – 30 Years & Counting’

    MKY Milton Keynes Network Rail - The Quadrant: MK, Elder Gate, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

    A presentation by Chris McCandless-Stone, Fleet Performance Manager, Eurostar. A look at what 30 years of Eurostar has done for connecting the UK with Mainland Europe before embarking on a high-speed journey into the future.

  • ‘The Changeover Years’

    MKY Milton Keynes Network Rail - The Quadrant: MK, Elder Gate, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

    A presentation of slides from the late Bob Kemp collection by Brian Ringer, covering the first half of the 1960s when both steam and modern traction shared main line duties. Most of the scenes depicted are local to our area and feature the WCML, MML and ECML in Bucks, Beds and Northants, however a few…