FROM HERE TO THERE

SWL Radyr, Cardiff Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, United Kingdom

NOEL THOMPSON From Here to There. 92233 assisted by 4137 entering the Severn Tunnel on a westbound freight In Part 1 "here" is Radyr, "there" is Crewe. Part 2 takes us from Newport to Weymouth via London (including a whistle stop tour of various London termini), thence via the LSW route to Weymouth including a…

East Coast Main Line

SWL Radyr, Cardiff Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, United Kingdom

East Coast Main Line, An Illustrated Slide Show Presentation Image Credit Stephen Gay

Railways Around Radyr

SWL Radyr, Cardiff Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, United Kingdom

A TfW Class 150 heads into Radyr past Radyr Weir in January 2023. The masts for the electrification of the Core Valley Network will finish Jeremy Segrott and Peter Fortune's  presentation, which will start with the opoening of the Taff Vale railway in 1840

Blue Diesel Days

SWL Radyr, Cardiff Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, United Kingdom

The Second Rowland Pittard Memorial Lecture Michael Robinson, Editor of the Railway Observer will present a show featuring his own photographs of  a selection of blue livereied diesel locomotives

Summer Social

SWL Radyr, Cardiff Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, United Kingdom

The Vale of Rheidol & Welshpool & Llanfair Railways

SWL Radyr, Cardiff Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, United Kingdom

  Dave Waldron returns to the branch to provide us with an evening of his memories of two of the iconic narrow gauge lines in Wales, the Vale of Rheidol and the W & LLR. Image shows VoR No 8 Llewelyn climbing to Devils Bridge.

Irish Narrow Gauge

SWL Swansea Dyfatty Community Centre, Chapel Street, Dyfatty, Swansea, United Kingdom

Branch Sales Officer and Fixture Secretary Nigel Wassell relaunches our Swansea programme with a series of images capturing the variety of narrow gauge in Ireland. Outside the Foyle Valley Railway Museum, Londonderry The locomotive in the image is a 3ft narrow gauge locomotive built for the County Donegal Joint Railways Committee (CDJRC) in 1907 by…

My Favourite Moments 1986 to 2019

SWL Radyr, Cardiff Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Steve Rickett, Branch Treasurer and regular contributor to Right Tracks, the Branch Newsletter will present a series of images celebrating more than 40 years of following and photographing trains across Great Britain   Steve's image of 710269 working 2J39 10:54 Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside at Barking on 20 May 2023 during a branch observation…

In Days of Plenty on the Zafra

SWL Radyr, Cardiff Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Regular visitor Tony Wardrobe makes a welcome return as a presenter with a series of images of railways in Cuba.

The Brecon & Cambrian Lines in the Sixties

SWL Swansea Dyfatty Community Centre, Chapel Street, Dyfatty, Swansea, United Kingdom

  John Davies will give us a photographic tour of these historic lines, including the lines through Talyllyn Junction shown in Sid Rickard's image of 46518 bringing  in the 1325  train from Brecon to Moat Lane Junction on 2 May 1959

Rail Freight in Great Britain Today

SWL Radyr, Cardiff Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Rail Freight Group Director Maggie Simpson presents an update an overview of the situation regarding rail freight. In addition, she will present the prizes from there Branch's photographic competition.

BRANCH AGM FOLLOWED BY ON MONA’S ISLE and THE STATFOLD BARN RAILWAY

SWL Radyr, Cardiff Old Church Rooms / Hen Ysgoldy'r Eglwys, Park Road, Radyr, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Following the Branch AGM we will feature two short presentations:   On Mona's Isle by  Nigel Wassell and  The Statfold Barn Railway by Phil Stallard