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  • 1,000 eggs on a bicycle! – Colin Boocock

    EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    35018 Bournemouth Belle in 1956Colin Boocock is, among other things, a member of the Railway Photographic Society, having been a railway photographer covering much of the world in the 79 years since he started taking pictures. He worked for British Rail and Railtrack for 41 years and then part-time for a decade or so after…

  • Swindon to Swindon via Swindon – Richard Binding

    EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    We start at Swindon - head west on the "new" route to South Wales as far as the Bristol/Gloucester route where we turn north - taking in the Midland Route with appropriate motive power. A visit to the iconic Severn Bridge along the way before arrival at Gloucester. We return south via Stroud Chalford and…

  • Monorails of the 19th Century – Adrian Garner

    EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    Adrian Garner started modelling monorails in the 1960's and his research on monorails both within the UK and internationally has been collated into his two books on monorails covering the period to 1900 and the subsequent period from 1900 to 1950 Adrian's talk will concentrate on the earlier period but if time allows he will dip into…

  • Branch Social event with member’s contributions

    EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    A social evening with wine and mince pies and short contributions from the members - starts at 7pm

  • East Coast Main Line disasters – Adrian Gray

    EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    Adrian Gray is a historian who has been writing about railways and local history since his teenage years. This talk was inspired by his regular trips to London for work, travelling from Retford to King’s Cross. The talk will look at some significant fatal accidents and how they gradually contributed to improved safety since the…

  • Bob Gwynne

    Railway people – 26 years at the NRM – Bob Gwynne

    EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    This talk introduces who Bob is, the railway history he has worked on and the (mostly) railway people he has met through work. 

  • The Vintage Trains story – the rise to a Train Operating Company – Mike Corbett

    EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    The presentation covers the history and development of Vintage Trains in Birmingham to Train Operating Company status, together with the Tyseley collection of steam and diesel locomotives. Mike also illustrates examples of the use of modern technology applied to heritage locomotives and rolling stock for safe main line operation.

  • Midland Main Line Electrification – Matt Parkin

    EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    Matt Parkin (Contractors Engineering Manager for the MMLE Electrification from Kettering to Wigston) from SPL Powerlines UK (SPL) will present a lecture about the challenges and innovation for new electrification schemes

  • The Life and Times of Edward Thompson – Simon Martin

    EMD Nottingham The New Mechanics, 3 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    "I have much to do, gentlemen, and little time in which to do it". These words are attributed to Edward Thompson and have been taken in the past as meaning little time in which to enact change, specifically to the work of his predecessor, Sir Nigel Gresley. How far was this true, was the question…