HTC Hitchin
Harringworth Viaduct – A Victorian Gem
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch Presentation Presenter: John Hillier. The talk takes us on a journey over the past-200 years or so when the area along on the banks of the River Welland, which form the border between Northamptonshire and Rutland, was transformed into a noisy thriving industrial landscape for about 4 years…
Railways and Tramways of the Isle of Man
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation. Presenter: Geoff Brockett. This presentation will feature all the vintage railways and tramways currently operating on the Island, using slides taken on regular visits. Geoff will also be including a bit of background history and information about the lines. Doors open from 19:00
Siemens-ECML Signalling Project
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin and Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation. Presented by Sarah Ponting (Siemens). The decision to re-signal the southern end of the East Coast Main Line (ECML) has been well publicised. It is to be part of the Digital Railway initiative, although ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System) and its ETCS component (European Train Control…
Tales from Potton and Hitchin CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin and Welwyn Garden City Branch Presentation. Presenter: George Howe A regular at our meetings George has spoken to us several times previously, but tonight he will be recalling his memories as a railwayman, both at Hitchin & Potton. He will be talking about the many tales he had in his time at both…
The Southern Past and Present
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomRemembering The End of Southern Steam – A Personal View 50 Years On. A Hitchin and Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Des Shepherd. 1967 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…
A Swiss Railway Trilogy (Part 1)
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin and Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation. 11th October at Hitchin. A presentation by Steve Ollive Part one of Steve’s talk on Swiss Railways covers the three primary mainline railways (SBB, BLS and SOB) as well as the private railways beginning A to C (starting with the Apenzeller Bahn and moving as far as…
Hitchin, the Last Few Years
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA presentation by Richard Allen. Expect a very local presentation from Richard, one of our local branch members. Doors open from 19:00
From Rookie Journalist to Grumpy Old Man
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by David Percival This is a change of speaker from the original programme. David is well known locally for this photography skills and as a historian on the ECML in the local area, having worked on railway magazines for most of his life he is a…
Passenger Services Across the UK During the Past Decades
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by Paul Chancellor. Paul is the proprietor of Colour-Rail and author of rail related books and articles. He promises us a talk ranging from the “Elizabethan” to some remote Scottish branch lines. Doors open at 7:00pm
The Bridge is Down! – New Investigation into the Tay Bridge Disaster
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomA Presentation by Dr Rudi Newman, Transport Historian and Author When the Tay Bridge collapsed in 1879, commemorated by poet William McGonagall, the confidence of the Victorian Age was shattered. Seen as a triumph of engineering, its destruction with the loss of a train and all souls aboard revealed fatal deficiencies in design and construction…
The 1960’s
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomRobert Warburton has Covid-19 and his scheduled presentation will be replaced with one from Geoff Plumb's featuring the 1960s. Doors open from 7:00pm.
Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch AGM
HTC Hitchin Tilehouse Street Baptist Church, Upper Tilehouse Street, Hitchin, United KingdomThe Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch AGM is the formal part of a Members' Evening - Come and see just what the Branch does.