CSL Croydon
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Pictures from the Harold Clements Collection, Part 1
CSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomBryan Cross comes to present a selection of monochrome images, all scanned directly from the Harold Clements collection of original Lantern slides, Glass plates and large format negatives. These were taken by Harold Clements, his Father and Grandfather. This presentation starts with images around Luton - from MR days in the 1880s to BR(M) in…
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Croydon & SL Branch AGM and Members’ Images
CSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomOur Annual General Meeting, to be followed by Members' Images (both digital and conventional slide projectors will be available). Your chance to speak up and show off! As our long serving Chairman Chris Meredith and Secretary Peter Wilson have both decided to step down, it is essential that people come forward to join the committee…
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Roaming Around London With a Camera
FeaturedCSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomGeoff Brockett brings the results of his photographic roamings, to show us the great diversity of trains and liveries to be seen around the capital in recent years. As he lives in London and so does a lot of his photography there, it seemed a good idea to do a show based specifically on what…
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A Lifetime of Railway Photography
FeaturedCSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomNot quite a lifetime, John took his first picture at the age of nine using his mother's rather ancient folding camera. He was already interested in railways as most boys of his generation were, where the passion came from for recording what he saw on film is lost in the mists of time but it's…
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Stuart Underdown’s Southern Memories
FeaturedCSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomThe late Stuart Underdown was a Society member and an accomplished photographer, who put together a number of presentations, including this one, of his 'Southern Memories', of his own photographs covering the period from the early 1960s through the 1970s, together with some much older images that he had collected, and ranging from Kent to…
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A Tenth Colour-Rail Journey
FeaturedCSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomTen photographers take us on a journey all around Great Britain, and down through the years from 1955 to the present day, covering all the regions and all forms of motive power, conducted by Paul Chancellor: Mr Colour-Rail (and Society Strategic Planning Officer). The ten photographers, some well known such Roger Siviter and John Spencer-Gilks,…
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Charles Firminger Looks Back
FeaturedCSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomCharles Firminger, President of the Locomotive Club of Great Britain, comes to look back to the 1950s, with a selection of images taken between 1957 and 1959, both in Britain and Europe. Note: Since the start of this season, we are meeting in the Primary Room at the East Croydon URC (rather than the Small…
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Railways in Italy in the 1990s
FeaturedCSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomJeremy Harrison made a number of visits to Italy in the 1990s, travelling on and photographing the railways, and today comes to show us some of the fruits of this, with images of steam, electric and diesel traction. Note: From this meeting (start of season) we will be meeting in the Primary Room, rather than…
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Sir Nigel Gresley: The LNER’s First C.M.E.
FeaturedCSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomHaving previously given us a presentation on Edward Thompson, Gresley Society member Simon A. C. Martin returns to tell us about his predecessor, Sir Nigel Gresley, who he has been researching for a coming book. In the course of thirty years as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Northern Railway, and then after the grouping…
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Croydon & South London Branch AGM, and Members’ Images
CSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomOur Annual General Meeting, to give you an opportunity to discuss the present and future of the Branch. It will be followed by a session of members' images - your opportunity to show your work. Both conventional 35mm slide and digital projectors will be available. Your opportunity to speak out and show off!
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Around the World with 155 Hunslet 4-6-0Ts
CSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomDuring the First World War the Hunslet Engine Company built 155 narrow gauge 4-6-0T locomotives for the War Department Light Railways, for use on the Western Front. After the war, they were disposed of as war surplus, to diverse locations around the world - from the Scottish Highlands to the Argentine Pampas, from Harrogate gasworks…
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The Work of the RAIB
FeaturedCSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomThe Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) was established in 2005, following a recommendation from the Cullen enquiry as the independent body for investigating accidents and incidents on mainline railways, metros, tramways and heritage railways throughout the UK. Having advised on its establishment, using his experience as a BTP Crime Scene Investigator managing the scenes of…