HTC Hitchin
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Oliver Bulleid and 35028 “Clan Line”
HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by Simon Martin. Details to follow. Doors open 13:30 for 14:00 start.
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The Vintage Trains Story – To a Train Operating Company
HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by Mike Corbett. Details to follow. Doors open 13:30 for 14:00 start.
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Timetable Planning – A Dark Art, Plus More.
HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by Dave Hepper. After a career in Operational Planning, retired Anglia Train Planning Manager Dave Hepper will be talking on how (and how not) to plan a timetable. But not just timetabling, Dave will also explain how traction and traincrew diagrams resource the timetable, and touch on…
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The Last Years of Steam 1966-1967
HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by Michael Smyth. Details to follow. Doors open 13:30 for 14:00 start.
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Eurostar – 30 Years & Counting
HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by Chris McCanless. Details to follow. Doors open at 13:30 for a 14:00 start.
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Sugar, Steam and Sunsets (Java)
HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin and Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by David Longman. In the early years of this century, David Longman made a series of trips to photograph the remaining steam locomotives working on the narrow gauge sugar lines in Java. Unwilling to join an organised group he travelled the length of the island by bus,…
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From Litchurch Lane to Temple Mills via Paris – A working life on the rails.
HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin and Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by Hugh Driscoll. (This replaces the previously advertised presentation) Hugh will be describing his railway career, from his initial training at Derby Carriage Works through varied BR engineering training scheme placements, then on to working in depots for BR, Intercity and Eurostar in a variety of roles.…
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The Last Four Years of Steam
St Marks Church Hall, Hitchin SG5 1UR St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire +1 moreA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by George Howe. George tells us that: This will be a slide show which will take you back to the steam era 1964 to 1968 if you were around in that time. If younger hopefully it will show life, and how I travelled about to capture live…
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The Midland Main Line – Bedford to St Pancras
HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation, from the Peter Bland Collection, by Bryan Cross. A digital presentation of images mostly scanned directly from the negatives of Peter Bland & Harold Clements. We will travel along the ex-Midland Main Line, Bedford to St Pancras & Moorgate. Looking at the early history, aided by maps…
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Five Go to Swansea – Part 2
HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Chris Jones. In the words of the presenter - Researching for a part two on Swansea stations has proved an interesting challenge. However the material has been coming in and the coverage will be extensive after all there were over 30 stations listed at one time…
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The 11th Colour Rail Journey
HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Paul Chancellor. The spotter of 1964 could record some 280 different classes of locomotives and units if they travelled throughout the country and we will see most of them during our ramble around the UK. The photo is in the North East at Tyne Dock shed…
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Mandarin Madness – Solo Travels in China
HTC Hitchin St Mark's Church, St Mark's Close, Lancaster Avenue, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by David Longman. What do you do if you want to photograph steam in China but don’t speak the language, can’t afford a guide or an interpreter and dislike big groups? In a moment of ‘Mandarin Madness’ you decide to go it alone of course! Dave Longman…