SWL South Wales / De Cymru branch

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

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

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

  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.

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…

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…

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

  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 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.

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

BRANCH COMMITTEE MEMBER NIGEL WASSELL WILL DELIVER THE THIRD ROWLAND PITYTARD MEMORIAL LECTURE BY LOOKING AT THE LINES AND STATIONS WHICH WERE CLOSED IN JUNE 1964