National Meetings
Was That Really 40 Years Ago?
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomTime to turn the clock back over 40 years! Having re-discovered his camera, David Allen journeys throughout BR between 1978 and 1981, with a presentation of the often neglected BR Blue era for all to enjoy.
‘Twixt War and Grouping
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomA selection of images of Britain's Railways between 1919 and 1922 - the period between the Armistice and the Grouping, now a century ago - drawn from the Ken Nunn collection (of the LCGB/NRM), and presented by Jeremy Harrison.
British Steam in the Last Decade: a Personal View
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomJeremy Harrison brings a somewhat random selection from his steam photography since he 'went digital' in 2009, as he presents a more up to date presentation than our recent offerings from the last century.
That Was the Year That Was – 1967
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomAfter looking back a century, and then over the last decade, in our last two meetings, for this month's meeting we split the difference, and are taken back 55 years, to 1967, by excellent photographer (and Watford Branch chairman) Geoff Plumb. This was the penultimate year of regular standard gauge steam on British Railways, and…
A Tour de France by Narrow Gauge
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomMichael Bunn tells the story of the rise and fall of the secondary 60cm and metre gauge networks once a feature of French railways, and of the tourist and SNCF public service narrow gauge lines still in service.
RCTS Members’ Weekend 2022
Reading Novotel Centre 25b Friar Street, ReadingWe’re delighted that the Members’ Weekend is once again taking place this year, based in Reading, at the Novotel Centre (only a couple of minutes walk from the Station), and organised by the Surrey, Windsor & Maidenhead and Thames Valley Branches. There will be the usual three days of events and visits, from Friday 21st October…
The Last Years Of Swindon Works – The Post-Hydraulic Years
Reading Novotel Centre 25b Friar Street, ReadingThe Rev Canon Brian Arman, Society President and GWR expert, tells how the era of Swindon Works came to its conclusion. While arranged as part of the 2022 Members' Weekend, all members (and guests) are welcome, even if you are not attending any other part of the Weekend. A pre-booked hot buffet dinner (a set…
Trans-Pennine Traction in the Eighties
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomDerek Huntriss returns with another presentation of his excellent photography, this time from the 1980s, illustrating the railways of the North of England as they cross the Pennines to link the cities of Lancashire and Yorkshire. A show of two halves, in the first we see the every day scene of then modern traction (how…
Steam in the British Isles in the 1960s
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomA presentation by Tony Bowles of his own images, featuring steam working all around the United Kingdom - on the main lines of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from 1962 onward until the end in 1968, and also of industrial steam into the early 1970s.
A Steam Enthusiast’s Paradise: Turkey 1978-1983
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomIf after the Christmas celebrations you're getting fed up with assum Meleagris gallopavo domesticus, come and enjoy a presentation of Turcorum ferri vapor equis, from excellent photographer Peter Robins. Turkey was a steam enthusiast's paradise between 1978 and 1983 as locos from more than twenty different classes were used over much of the country. The…
After the Grouping
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomJeremy Harrison presents a selection of images from the LCGB/NRM Ken Nunn collection, covering the period 1923-1929. This year marks the Centenary of the 1923 Grouping, when most of the Railways of Great Britain were amalgamated into the 'Big Four' - the greatest reorganisation they had suffered in their first century, which was marked by…
Scenes from the 60’s in Colour
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomThis presentation centres on the railway scene from late 1965 to 1967 in the North West, although a few scenes from elsewhere do feature. The emphasis is on the variety of BR steam motive power still around at that time but occasional diesels and various steam types in industrial service also appear. All the pictures…