HTC Hitchin
Cambridge Area Railways – Yesterday & Today (Part 1)
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation. Presenter: David Scudamore In this presentation (Part 1 of a series) David will look in detail at all aspects of the Cambridge railway scene including its history, infrastructure, artefacts, trains & locomotives from the steam age to the present day. He will then take us north along…
Branch AGM + The Son of a Rail Enthusiast
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Event. The branch AGM - followed by a presentation given by Richard Cole, son of David Cole who was the founder of the branch and a Vice President of the RCTS. Richard will be looking through some of his dad’s slides and explaining how his passion for railways influenced…
Edward Thompson, Wartime CME
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation. Presenter: Simon Martin "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,…
The Corris Railway – Past, Present & Future
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation. THIS IS A CHANGE FROM THE PUBLISHED PROGRAMME Presenter: Chris Jones. Chris is stepping in at very short notice, as Richard Allen is unfortunately unable to attend. Doors open 19:00
A Decade of Home and Away
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin and Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation. Presenter: David Jackman In "A Decade of Home and Away" David Jackman will illustrate some of the things that have changed, as well as some that haven't, on the railway over the last decade or so, starting in the UK and then moving to Europe. In the…
Five Go To Swansea (Part 1)
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation. Presenter - Chris Jones This presentation is about the seven railway termini in Swansea and the five railway companies that were involved. This is if you count The Mumbles train as a Railway- It did carry freight. The stations will be looked at, as far as possible,…
Steam in the 1960’s
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Chris Wright. Chris Wright, a native of Gorleston-on-Sea, spent many school holidays 1959-1965 spotting in Hitchin. In a two-part presentation, the first Tuesday 10th October, the second Tuesday May 14th 2024, he will talk about his early spotting ventures in Norfolk; the end of steam in…
The Last Four Years of Steam
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by George Howe. An introduction by George: 1964 saw me making a change from black and white prints, to colour slides. This just happened to be four years before the end of steam on British Railways, hence the title, The last 4 years of Steam. I travelled…
Re-Creating the Past
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Des Shepherd. Doors open 19:00. Details to follow.
A 10th Colour Rail Journey
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by Paul Chancellor. Paul tells us that this presentation covers all regions and motive power from 1955 to the present day using over 300 colour and black and white images exploring how different photographers approached the subject of recording the daily railway scene. Whilst running Colour-Rail Paul…
More From The Peter Bland Collection
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by Bryan Cross. Doors open 19:00.
Northwards from Kings Cross
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch Presentation. Presented by Rob Freeman. This Gems presentation is from the H C Casserley Collection which consists of eight sections, covering a broad selection of topics around the country. The section given priority for this evening will be Northwards from Kings Cross. The other topics included in the…