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Günter Oczko and friends – Steam Worldwide between 1970 and 2024
FeaturedVirtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomGünter is promising a further selection of excellent Steam photography from around the world, featuring both his own work, and of his friends Bernhard Haseneder and Dirk Hoellerhage. Countries featured include Germany (both West and East), Czechoslovakia, Turkey, India, South Africa and China, over the last half century (and a bit). An event to bring…
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That Was The Year That Was – 1973
FeaturedVirtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomGeoff Plumb (Watford Branch Chairman) returns to present another of his popular ‘That Was The Year That Was’ series, this time taking us through 1973 (is that really over half a century ago?). We start the year with East to West cross-border German steam around Bebra in January, moving on to Austria for snowy scenes…
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Transforming the West Highland Line
FeaturedVirtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomFormer Society Chairman and British Rail Business Manager Highland Callum MacLeod joins us to tell of the challenges that faced the West Highland Line in the early 1980s, and the changes, upgrades and transformation that followed in meeting and overcoming these through that decade. These included the introduction of RETB signalling and DMUs, together with…
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Steam in Romania and Elsewhere
FeaturedVirtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomA two part presentation, by two of our German stalwarts. In the first half, Helmut Dahlhaus will show photos by his late brother Hans Dieter Dahlhaus of steam on Căile Ferate Române (Romanian Railways) between 1968 and 1980, to be followed from some his own images of steam in Czechoslovakia. For a more powerful express…
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Perhaps the 1990s were more Interesting than I Originally Thought!
FeaturedVirtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomVirtual EventA look back some three decades (how time flies! - that's a longer geriod than the 'Big Four' lasted), to the end of the nationalised railway era. Our presenter David Allen writes: "Suppose I was generally lucky in when a New Year dawned my thoughts were on what was a priority to photograph rather than…
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Inside Story - The Railway Observer: Building a Society Magazine
FeaturedVirtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomVirtual EventIf you have ever wondered how every month the RO gets from raw information to your doorstep, Mike Robinson, Managing Editor of The Railway Observer, will be describing in this illustrated presentation what we do and how we do it. If you are interested in our editorial and image selection process or have ever considered…
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Keeping a heritage railway going in the 2020s using 1950s equipment with all the attendant modern day requirements
FeaturedVirtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomVirtual EventSome challenges never change, such as when winter strikes. Here Phil Pritchard is on snow portering duty, helping to keep the railway running safely on 3 December 2010. Image credit: David Layland/East Lancs Railway. David Layland (East Lancashire Light Railway Co Director of Finance and RCTS member) will present an illustrated PowerPoint presentation. He will…
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Railways before the War – that’s the Great War! (Part 1)
FeaturedVirtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomVirtual EventA presentation of Black and White images, drawn from the Ken Nunn collection and scanned from glass plates, illustrating railways in Britain before the Great War. Tonight's is the first of three parts, starting with a few images from before the Great Boer War (as it was known at the time), and then featuring Eastern…
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Testing and Commissioning the IC225s
FeaturedVirtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomVirtual EventDave Coxon started work for British Railways at the Loco Works in Derby in 1964. During his long career Dave has worked for the LM CM&EE, the DM&EE and R&DD, for Serco and latterly for Bombardier in Derby. Dave was part of the Commissioning Section at the RTC Derby who were involved with testing and…
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A Touch of Winter
FeaturedVirtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomVirtual EventThis presentation is a variety of images with a definite cold winter theme starting in the UK then moving through Europe, to Ukraine and on to China. If (as is likely based on recent years) we have missed out on a White Christmas, this will make up for it; and if perchance the weather is…
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Railways before the War – that’s the Great War! (Part 2)
FeaturedVirtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomVirtual EventA further presentation of Black and White images, drawn from the Ken Nunn collection and scanned from glass plates, illustrating railways in Britain before the Great War. Tonight's is the second of the three parts, featuring Southern and Western (the railways which would be amalgamated into the Southern, GWR and LMSR in 1923). The Ken…
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Railways before (and during) the War – that’s the Great War! (Part 3)
FeaturedVirtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomVirtual EventA further presentation of Black and White images, drawn from the Ken Nunn collection and scanned from glass plates, illustrating railways in Britain before the Great War. Tonight’s is the final part, featuring Welsh railways, ventures to Belgium and France, and then a wider look at British railways in 1914 and 1915, when it was…