HTC Welwyn
The History of the 125 High Speed Train 1975-2023
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by Richard Morris. The Inter City 125 High Speed Trains were introduced to the Great British public in 1975 after the Advanced Passenger Train project stalled a bit. The HSTs were intended to be a stop-gap, but ended up forming the core Inter City fleet for Britain's…
Railtours and Specials (Part 2)
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation. Presenter: John Day. Following on from the May 2023 presentation “Railtours, Specials and Unusual Workings” this second presentation, on the same theme, looks at archive material that didn’t make the cut last time plus additional new material. A lot seems to have happened in the last year…
That Was The Year That Was – 1971
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation. Presenter: Geoff Plumb Geoff returns with another of his popular TWTYTW series. ‘That Was the Year That Was – 1971’. A very busy year covering railways in the UK, including British Railways, industrials, some North Wales narrow gauge, last of steam on London Transport, Humber paddle steamers,…
Tunnel Vision – The History of the Metropolitan Railway
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation. Presenter: Colin Brading. The story of the Metropolitan, the world’s first underground railway. Less than four miles long when it opened - to great acclaim - in January 1863, this ‘little acorn’ grew as a proud independent company to spread many branches and ‘the Met’ has shaped…
East Anglia in the 2020s
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation. Presenter: Iain Scotchman. Details to follow. Doors open 13:30.
Steam in the Kings Cross Area – in the 50’s and 60’s
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation. Presenter: David Percival. It was in 1953 that the Percival family moved from South London to North Hertfordshire. For the next ten years, until the end of regular steam in the area, David spotted at the ECML lineside, travelled by train to school and latterly commuted to…
Industrial Action
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin and Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation. This is a change from the previously advertised presentation. Presenter: Geoff Plumb. In the presentation Geoff will take a look at some industrial systems around the country, including steelworks at Corby and Staveley, paper mills in Kent, cement in Essex and a visit to Avonmouth Docks. Also,…
An A-Z of Switzerland
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation Presenter: Steve Ollive In the second of three parts describing the Railways of Switzerland, Steve will cover the railways from D to M inclusive, starting with the Dolder Bahn in Zurich and ending with the Transport Montreux-Vevey-Riviera now part of the MOB organisation. As with part one,…
The Severn Valley and The Gloucester & Warwickshire Railways
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City presentation by Richard Morris. The Severn Valley Railway was one of the first heritage railways to rise from the ashes of the wholesale closure of branch line railways in the 1960s and has developed into one of the country's premier heritage railways. It was up and running 6 years…
The Line from Doncaster to Hull
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Stephen Gay. Doors open 13:30.
The GER – Rarely Other than Idiosyncratic
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City branch presentation by Ray Schofield. Doors open 13:30. Details to follow.
Mangapps Farm Railway
HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United KingdomA Hitchin & Welwyn Garden City Branch presentation by John Jolly. Members of the branch may recall the most enjoyable visit we made to Mangapps Farm railway a couple of years ago. John is the owner. Doors open 13:30.