HTC Welwyn Garden City
The Epping Ongar Railway
HTC Welwyn Garden City Ludwick Way Methodist Church, 149 Ludwick Way, Welwyn Garden City, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch Presentation. Presented by Eddie Veckranges. The present-day Epping Ongar Railway was born as a heritage railway in October 2004. This was 10 years after the closure of the underground 1994. This talk will take you through the history of the branch to the present day, when in the…
The LMS Patriot Project – How are we doing?
HTC Welwyn Garden City Ludwick Way Methodist Church, 149 Ludwick Way, Welwyn Garden City, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch Presentation. Presenter: Colin Hall. Our speaker, the Project Chairman, will give a presentation bringing us up-to-date on the ups and downs of this project to the present day. The LMS-Patriot project is building a working Patriot Class steam locomotive as a National Memorial Engine, recreating a railway heritage…
A Railwayman Remembers
HTC Welwyn Garden City Ludwick Way Methodist Church, 149 Ludwick Way, Welwyn Garden City, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation. Presenter: Dave Cockle: The "A Railwayman Remembers" talk covers a thirty-eight-year period from 1968 to 2007 looking at Dave's railway career from unofficial signalman on the Hertford Loop to Operations Compliance Manager for the former train operating company First Capital Connect. His work was predominately in operational…
Swanning Around London – in the 1980’s
HTC Welwyn Garden City Ludwick Way Methodist Church, 149 Ludwick Way, Welwyn Garden City, United KingdomA Hitchin and Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation. Presented by Jeremy Harrison. In 1986 Network SouthEast and London Transport introduced the One-Day Capitalcard, giving unlimited travel across Greater London by Train, Tube and Bus, with the slogan 'All You Need To Swan Around London'. Jeremy Harrison took advantage of this to Swan Around London with…
150 Years – GNR from Wood Green to Enfield
HTC Welwyn Garden City Ludwick Way Methodist Church, 149 Ludwick Way, Welwyn Garden City, United KingdomA Hitchin and Welwyn Garden City Branch Presentation. Presenter: Dave Cockle. Dave will be talking about “150 years of GNR from Wood Green to Enfield”. On 1st April 1871, the Great Northern Railway opened their Wood Green to Enfield Branch through Palmers Green & Winchmore Hill. The coming of the railway had a profound impact…
The History of the Paris Metro
HTC Welwyn Garden City Ludwick Way Methodist Church, 149 Ludwick Way, Welwyn Garden City, United KingdomA Hitchin and Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Mike Bunn. A look at the 122-year history of Europe's second busiest and one of the world's densest metro systems, with over 300 stations. The expansion of the network, station architecture, development of rolling stock, including the introduction of rubber tyred trains to five lines, the…
Great Western Locomotives in Preservation
HTC Welwyn Garden City Ludwick Way Methodist Church, 149 Ludwick Way, Welwyn Garden City, United KingdomA Hitchin and Welwyn Garden City Presentation. 25th October at Welwyn Garden City. A presentation by Richard Morris. After the end of regular main line steam on BR, the preservation movement got to work and saved representative locomotives from most of the constituent companies. Some locos sadly didn’t make it, a few of those have…
ECML Part 2 : York to Edinburgh
HTC Welwyn Garden City Ludwick Way Methodist Church, 149 Ludwick Way, Welwyn Garden City, United KingdomA presentation by Stephen Gay. As the title says, this is the second part of Stephen's travel along the East Coast Mainline (Part 1 was in October 2021). Covering the 205 miles from York to Edinburgh and calling at the principle stations along the route. We can expect to see Stephen's recently taken photos described…
The Great Northern Railway and King’s Cross
HTC Welwyn Garden City Ludwick Way Methodist Church, 149 Ludwick Way, Welwyn Garden City, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Ray Schofield. York was the “gateway to the north”, and just two years after the London & Birmingham Railway - Britain's first mainline – opened, York was connected to the rail network. The route, from Euston via Rugby, Leicester and Derby was 40miles longer…
A Branch Line to Disney
HTC Welwyn Garden City Ludwick Way Methodist Church, 149 Ludwick Way, Welwyn Garden City, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by Steve Lacey The story of the Gravesend West Street branch which, before the tunnelling under the Thames and East London was complete, formed the way into London via a cord at Southfleet, along the line of the old branch, to join the classic line into…
Over Half a Century has Passed
HTC Welwyn Garden City Ludwick Way Methodist Church, 149 Ludwick Way, Welwyn Garden City, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Geoff May. Just in time, Geoff May was fortunate enough to capture on camera the final years of the steam age on the Southern and London Midland Regions of BR. The selection of photos in both monochrome and colour convey his memories and impressions of a…
A Modern Image – Not Quite
HTC Welwyn Garden City Ludwick Way Methodist Church, 149 Ludwick Way, Welwyn Garden City, United KingdomA presentation by Peter Robins. An introduction by Peter - Having been a lifelong railway enthusiast, my main interest is photographing the working railway whether it be steam, or other forms of traction. I retired from the railway industry in 2016 after 42 years all of which was based on the former Western Region. I…