CSL Croydon
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FeaturedStuart Underdown’s Southern Memories
CSL 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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FeaturedA Tenth Colour-Rail Journey
CSL 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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FeaturedCharles Firminger Looks Back
CSL 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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FeaturedRailways in Italy in the 1990s
CSL 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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FeaturedSir Nigel Gresley: The LNER’s First C.M.E.
CSL 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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FeaturedThe Work of the RAIB
CSL 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…
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FeaturedRailways of the Former USSR
CSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomAs the USSR came to an end in 1991, tours for foreign railway enthusiasts became possible, and your presenter participated in a number of these in the 1990s, to Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, photographing what still very much - at least as it appeared to a westerner - the single railway system of the (former)…
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FeaturedThe Masked Gricer
CSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomSimon's Presentation provides a pictorial diary of what he got up to during the COVID pandemic. From scanning his own and other peoples slides to photographing Modern Traction and Preserved steam. This varied show has something for everyone, 1960's steam, 1980's diesels, overseas steam and recent images of the railway today including heritage lines.
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FeaturedRemembering the end of Southern Steam – a personal view 50 years later
CSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United Kingdom1967 saw the end of steam operation on the Southern Region. In the months leading up to July 1967, Des Shepherd made many visits to experience the final rites of steam operation in the south of England. Fifty years on, he decided to revisit many of the places he discovered then as well as to…
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FeaturedSouthern Steam 1897-1967 on Film
CSL Croydon East Croydon United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove, Croydon, United KingdomA selection of videos from Screen Archive South East and West Sussex Record Office, with their kind permission, depicting Southern Steam, ranging from the arrival of an LBSCR Stroudley 'Gladstone' at Hove in 1897 to the departure of Bulleid Pacifics from Waterloo in 1967, on main lines and country byways. Screen Archive South East is…