National Meetings

Michael Grieves started taking cine film in the 1960s, and, as steam in Britain came to an end, made many European trips in search of it, taking many films of what he found - these have now been scanned into digital format. Tonight he will show a miscellany drawing from his trips to France between…

Geoff Plumb returns with another presentation of his excellent photography, this time looking back at 1965. Steam was still in evidence on his local line, the Metropolitan and Great Central Joint, while he also made many visits to the South Western Mainline, the Isle of Wight, North Wales, and other steam strongholds round the country,…

Black & White Photos from the Restoration & Archiving Trust Collection, presented by Mike Dodd. Every region is covered, including GWR, LMS, LNER and Southern ranging across Scotland, England and Wales. The images to be shown this evening come from a few of the negatives held at the archive, from the collections of five photographers:…

A personal view of Steam on the Great Little Railways of Wales in the present century. Railways featured include the Welsh Highland, Festiniog, Talyllyn, Corris, Vale of Rheidol and Welshpool & Llanfair. For this virtual event, you will require a ticket. Free for RCTS members, but a £2.00 donation will be requested at the checkout.…

2017 was a Special Year for Robin Patrick, and tonight he looks back at it.  His presentation covers a whole year of photography, featuring both steam & modern traction, including three Overseas visits, to South Africa, Sweden and the Czech Republic. For this virtual event, you will require a ticket. Free for RCTS members, but…

A presentation by excellent photographer Peter Robins, which, starting with Rheine - Emden steam in 1975, looks at both DB and DR over the years and their transition from steam to diesel and electric traction. Some Plandampf and narrow gauge images are also included. For this virtual event, you will require a ticket. Free for…

Having been even more disorganised than usual, this month's presentatation will just be a somewhat random selection of my (Jeremy Harrison's) images, that I feel are worth seeing. And if anyone else would like to show some of theirs, please step forward, and send an e-mail to zoom-national@rcts.org.uk, to be included in this evening's programme.…

Having been an avid spotter in his youth, when David Allen left school he entered a dormant period. It wasn’t until 1971, when he took the train to Wrexham and was confronted with things he thought no longer existed, that his railway interest revived. From then on he was hooked on ‘change’. This later focussed…

Jeremy Harrison looks back to twenty years ago, and what he was able to photograph then, both at home and abroad, ranging from his local tram stop to Eritrea, showing the old and the new. For this virtual event, you will require a ticket. Free for RCTS members, but a £2.00 donation will be requested…

Günter Oczko returns with another selection of excellent photographs by him and his friends,  of narrow gauge steam in Europe during visits between 1970 and 2024, with images from Portugal to Poland and beyond. Countries included are Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Poland and Ukraine. For this virtual…

David Jackman will take us on a photographic journey through the last hundred years of steam, diesel and electric traction, starting at Paddington and heading west, using photographs from the society’s photographic archive. For this virtual event, you will require a ticket. Free for RCTS members, but a £2.00 donation will be requested at the…

A photographic review of the southern ECML, drawn from the Society’s Photographic archive by David Jackman. This features both the steam and diesel eras – while not completely forgetting the electric era – with the odd deviation along the way. For this virtual event, you will require a ticket. Free for RCTS members, but a…