National Meetings
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FeaturedA 1968 Jet Search for Steam
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomThe introduction of “Pacesetter” fares for under-26-year-olds in 1968 made international air travel much more affordable, and Frank Stamford - our regular Australian attendee - took advantage of them to make a fifteen-week round the world trip in search of steam, visiting Indonesia, the British Isles, Western Europe (from Portugal to West Germany), and South…
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Members’ Day and AGM 2024
Grand Station, Wolverhampton Sun Street, Wolverhampton, United KingdomThe AGM part of the day will allow remote participation via Zoom. If attending remotely, you must pre-register with Zoom, using the link below. Brunel Suite, Grand Station, Sun Street, Wolverhampton, WV10 0BF Saturday 20th April 2024 (doors open at 10.30 for 11:00 start) Programme for the day 11.00 Welcome and Refreshments Professional photographer Jack…
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FeaturedThe Narrow Gauge Railways of France
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomTony Bowles brings us another selection from The Restoration & Archiving Trust, this time comprising a mixture of colour and black & white photographs covering the narrow gauge lines in France that were still existed from the mid 1950s onwards, starting in Corsica & finishing on the Reseau Breton. For this virtual event, you will…
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FeaturedMy Early Photography, 1959-1966
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomRobin Patrick gives a presentation of his early black & white photography, from 1959 to 1966, a period in which he started his railway career at Roade. So 1964 with steam on WCML - the year he would most like to go back to - features strongly. But he also travelled around the country, visiting…
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FeaturedGünter Oczko and friends – Steam Worldwide between 1970 and 2024
Virtual 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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FeaturedThat Was The Year That Was – 1973
Virtual 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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FeaturedTransforming the West Highland Line
Virtual 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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FeaturedSteam in Romania and Elsewhere
Virtual 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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FeaturedPerhaps the 1990s were more Interesting than I Originally Thought!
Virtual 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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FeaturedInside Story - The Railway Observer: Building a Society Magazine
Virtual 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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FeaturedKeeping a heritage railway going in the 2020s using 1950s equipment with all the attendant modern day requirements
Virtual 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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FeaturedRailways before the War – that’s the Great War! (Part 1)
Virtual 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…