WFD Watford branch
Watford Branch AGM, Followed by ‘Vivarail:designing and building low-emission trains in the UK’, by David Horton
WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United KingdomWATFORD BRANCH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. Yet another opportunity for you to volunteer as an officer of the Committee of the RCTS Watford Branch - START 19:15 PLUS: DAVID HORTON visits for the first time with “Vivarail: designing and building low-emission trains in the UK”. Please note this is a PHYSICAL meeting. Synopsis: Since 2018, Vivarail…
Mangapps Railway, by John Jolly (Postponed). Now – Wrexham & Shropshire, a Photographic Retrospective, by Geoff Plumb
WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United KingdomTHIS IS A CHANGE OF PROGRAMME. Unfortunately, JOHN JOLLY from the Mangapps Railway has had to postpone this talk due to Covid issues. At short notice, Watford Branch Chairman GEOFF PLUMB has stepped in with a photographic presentation on the Wrexham & Shropshire Railway, a short-lived open access operator that certainly made its mark! Please…
‘A Broad Gauge Journey from Paddington to the West – Part 1’, by Brian Arman
WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United KingdomThe Society’s President, the Reverend Canon Brian Arman, visits the Watford Branch for the first time to present the first of his acclaimed series of talks on the Great Western Railway, ‘A Broad Gauge Journey from Paddington to the West – Part 1’. We look forward to seeing Brian, branch members, visitors and guests –…
That Was the Year That Was – 1974, by Geoff Plumb
WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United KingdomGeoff Plumb, Watford Branch Chairman, presents another in the series ‘That Was the Year That Was’, this time covering 1974, with a look behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany and Poland, also West Germany and a smattering of the UK.
The ‘LMS Patriot Project’, by Colin Hall, followed by ‘Rob’s Railway Years: the 1980s’, by Rob Freeman.
WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United KingdomIn place of John Day’s postponed presentation, we now have a two-part meeting. Colin Hall is the Chair of the LMS Patriot Project and will be giving us a frank first-hand presentation on the experiences and challenges faced recently and what is being done to move the project forward. The LMS-Patriot Project - Our aims…
Geoff Brockett returns with a new show: ‘Roaming Around London with a Camera’
WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United KingdomGEOFF BROCKETT returns with a new show ‘Roaming around London with a Camera’ Those of us who live in London are very lucky for the sheer variety of rolling stock and liveries that can be seen. This is a quick-fire show of images taken in Greater London over the last two to three years that…
‘Behind Closed Doors’ and ‘Underground Photos From the Past’, by Brian Hardy
WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United KingdomBRIAN HARDY: "Brian will give a two part presentation, 'Behind Closed Doors' (a look at disused parts of the Underground) and 'Underground Photos from the Past' (in black and white and colour)". Please note this is a change of subject matter from that originally advertised. 'Underground Photos From the Past' - Piccadilly Line and Metropolitan…
‘Members’ Presentations’, plus Lizzie’s Mince Pies and Sausage Rolls!
WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United KingdomAnother chance for Watford Branch members to show off your prowess with a camera (but don’t worry about the quality, feel the width!) – stills or videos, film or digital. Please bring along some 35mm slides or image files on a memory stick or DVD disc and we’ll endeavour to treat everyone to your photographic…
‘Railways and Me – Full Circle’ – by John Dyer.
VirtualThis will be a fairly wide-ranging personal perspective which might be described as ‘Bidston, Birkenhead and Beyond’. It starts with my interest in steam railways as a youth and railways generally, which was kindled locally on Merseyside where I was born and bred, and gradually expanding to other locations further afield. There are lots of…
‘More from Oz in the 1990s’, by Rob Freeman
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomMore of Rob's travels in NSW, Victoria, South Australia and a bit of Queensland in 1990, 1998 and 2000, featuring a wide range of locations and motive power showing some of the changes that took place in that decade as the political structure of the railways was changing and a new generation of diesels was…
‘Locomotives of the GWSR – Visitors and Residents’, by David Boot
VirtualThe content will be a montage of locomotives that have either been resident or visiting the GWSR since its inception in 1982 to the present day. There will also be surprise visitors other than locomotives that may please some of the viewers !? Please note - this is a Virtual Zoom Meeting - the registration…
Branch AGM, followed by ‘The Indian Hill Railways’, by David Brace
WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United KingdomThe Branch AGM will commence at 19:00 and we will get through this as quickly as we can! All present committee members are willing to continue in their posts - many thanks to them for their service over the past year. This will be followed by David Brace with a presentation on 'The Indian Hill…