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  • All Aboard the Pines Express (Part 2)

    TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United Kingdom

    Please note that this is an afternoon Meeting Back in October 2019 Chris gave us Part 1 of this talk.  We are pleased that following an extended break due to Covid Chris is now coming back to give us Part 2 of this talk.  In Chris' first talk he took us on the Somerset and…

  • Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Railways following Branch AGM

    In November 2022 Stuart Hicks and other railway enthusiasts made a maiden visit to the railways of Saudi Arabia, not long after the country had started welcoming tourists.  His trip took him to all three standard gauge passenger routes, an after-hours’ visit to the metro in the Women’s university, to the trolley bus route and…

  • Western Enterprise

    TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United Kingdom

    Significant investment over recent years has radically changed the face of the Great Western, a railway so rich in history that parts have been considered worthy of UNESCO World Heritage status. Setting the scene with a brief look at today's railway, this talk ranges widely across the route, blending aspects of the speaker's fifty-year western…

  • Swindon Works and Railway Sites Walkaround Tour

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    We plan to have a walkaround tour of the various remaining railway sites in Swindon. The tour will last approximately two hours and will be led by a former Swindon works employee and lifelong Swindon resident Martin Telling. During the walkaround tour we plan to visit the various workshops that still remain in the former works…

  • The Ivatt LMS 10000 Recreation Project

    TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United Kingdom

      The Ivatt Diesel Re-creation Society plan to recreate, and operate 10000. In the first half of this presentation we look at the original twins LMS 10000 and 10001 (the first British mainline diesel electric locomotives), and their place in history.   10000 and 10001 were designed by H.G. Ivatt and built by the LMS at…

  • East Anglian Railway Heritage

    TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United Kingdom

    The presentation includes visits to Heritage Railways in East Anglia from 2011 and more frequent trips to the area following the presenters daughter’s move to Norfolk in 2018, looking at heritage infrastructure on the national railway network and the surprising amount of surviving evidence of the many and varied lines through mainly rural areas many…

  • North Staffordshire Railway (Part 4)

    TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United Kingdom

    In the fourth and final part of the North Staffordshire Railway talks series using digitised images from the collection of over 15,000 colour slides taken by the late Tommy Tomalin (who sadly passed away in 2021 at the grand old age of 96). Brian Sullivan continues by showing us views (with historical details) of the…

  • Remembering my lines

    TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United Kingdom

    Colin Brading gives us a very wide-ranging presentation: starting from his early railway interests and lineside haunts to the highlights of a diverse engineering career spanning fifty years, ‘Remembering My Lines’ is an illustrated medley of memories and experiences seasoned with many of the presenter’s own favourites. On this journey ‘from anorak to hi-vis’ we…