The Midland Main Line Electrification Upgrade’

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

Gavin Crook (Network Rail Principal Programme Sponsor) and Duncan Cale (Infrastructure Interface Lead East Midlands Railway) will outline the development of the route over recent years, including the introduction of 4-tracking, electrification, platform extensions, new maintenance facilities and traincrew depots

Cathedrals of Steam

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

Christian Wolmar, transport writer, broadcaster and author of numerous books, traces the development of the major London stations, providing unique insights into their history, with many entertaining anecdotes, and celebrates the recent transformation of several of these stations into wonderful blends of the old and the new.

The Railway over the Stainmore Pass: Post War Boom & Bust on the North Trans-Pennine

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

Chris Rowley (Network Rail Capacity Planning Director) has a particular affection for the Trans Pennine Stainmore route (Bishop Auckland – Kirby Stephen – Penrith) closed in 1962. He has written an authoritative history of the route, England’s highest main line, which is published in November. The talk will cover the history of the line and…

Milton Keynes Branch Annual General Meeting

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

AGM and member’s presentations. Further details to be confirmed nearer to the date.

Travels in 2023

Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United Kingdom

For our first meeting of 2024, please join us on Zoom with member John Tigg who will take us on his travels through 2023, from the lineside on the WCML to Fawley Hill, and from Tallylyn to Barrow Hill.

East West Rail Update & The Newport Nobby

Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United Kingdom

Join us for another evening of members' presentations on Zoom. Clive Pepper will present an update on the developments with East West Rail and Steve Dexter will take a look back at the Newport Pagnell branch line.

Britain’s Railways Through The Lens – an evening with Jack Boskett

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

Back by popular demand, our first face to face meeting of the season welcomes multi award winning photographer Jack Boskett, who has an extensive catalogue of railway images in his portfolio and regularly travels across the UK to follow different excursions and special train movements.

Great Central Railway – Re-Unification

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

Tom Ingall from the Great Central Railway gives a talk on possibly the UK’s biggest heritage railway project, the re-unification of the two halves of the preserved section of the Great Central and the connection with Network Rail.

The Vintage Trains Story – the rise to a Train Operating Company

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

Joint meeting with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Mike Corbett gives a talk on the history and development of Birmingham based ‘Vintage Trains’ to Train Operating Company status, together with the Tyseley collection of steam and diesel locomotives, including the application of modern technology to heritage stock to enable main line operation.

An evening of 1960’s colour photography

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

Peter Brabham from the Monmouthshire Railway Society will present images from Cardiff based photographers John Wiltshire and Derek Chaplin in the 1960s.

Railways at a Junction

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

Fraser Pithie gives a reflection on British Railways, privatisation and a look at where today’s railway is and which route it is likely to take over the next decade.

Visit to the Northampton & Lamport Railway

Northampton & Lamport Railway Pitsford & Brampton Station, Pitsford Road, Chapel Brampton, Northampton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom

MILTON KEYNES BRANCH 2024 VISIT Sunday 14th July 2024 Northampton & Lamport Railway Itinerary ·          Travel by own transport to Pitsford & Brampton Station – meet on the platform                10:00 ·          Travel by train to new station at Boughton – visit to signal box ex Betley Road ·          Return to Pitsford & Brampton station by…

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