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  • Railtours and Specials (Part 2)

    HTC Welwyn Digswell Village Church Hall, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

    A 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 Kingdom

    A 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 Kingdom

    A 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 Kingdom

    A 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 Kingdom

    A 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…