TVY – With Lance King in Ulster The Great Northern Line : 1957 – 1965
presented by Leslie McAllister
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TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United Kingdom
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TVY – Travels from Jasper to Halifax, Bangor to Westport
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomStuart Hicks presents images of his travels in Canada, Ireland and Germany
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TVY – Britain’s Changing Railway from Outside and In
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomPhil Deaves - a career railwayman, takes us on a journey looking at Britain’s changing railway. Starting in the 1980’s, his early interest in railways with his local church Crusader group holidays, visiting engine sheds and stations, through the various jobs and roles he has had in his railway career. On the way we will…
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TVY Branch – Didcot to Birmingham Snow Hill – featuring the historic slides of Tommy Tomalin
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomBrian Sullivan returns to give us a further selection of historic scanned slides taken by Tommy Tomalin, this time covering the route from Didcot through to Snow Hill station in Birmingham. There are stops at various stations along the route to see the railway operations.
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TVY Branch – Conditions of Carriage Part 1 – the History of Railway Carriages
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomRailway carriages may be overshadowed by the glamour of the locomotive, but they can be glamorous too - or very basic! This presentation traces the diverse and fascinating story of how carriages evolved from the early stagecoach on rails; to modern day vehicles, with more than a few trials and errors along the way. Take…
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TVY Branch – My time inside the Wall – Memories of Swindon Works
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomMartin, who is well known to many of our RCTS Branch members, having been the host of our successful Swindon Works railway sites tour which we ran last year, comes from a long family line of Swindon railway employees. In this talk Martin will give us some of his personnel experiences of life inside Swindon…
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TVY Branch – The History of the North London Line
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomThe presentation explores the fluctuating history of the North London line and includes a photographic journey from Richmond to the former Terminus of Broad Street.
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TVY Branch – The Mangotsfield Triangle – Lost Midland Railway routes to Bristol and Bath
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomThe talk describes the long and complex story of railways around Mangotsfield where the first railway transporting coal arrived in 1832. We then follow the history with various railway companies involving both standard and broad gauge, to closure and the establishment of the Bristol and Bath Railway Path which was the first project by Sustrans.
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TVY Branch – Recent and Future Projects at Didcot Railway Centre
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomRichard Antliff (Didcot Railway Centre Civil Engineering Adviser) returns to give us a further insight into some of the recent and future planned projects being undertaken at the Didcot Railway Centre site. In addition, as we celebrate Rail 200 this year, Richard will also show us some of the activities happening at other railway sites…
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With Lance King in Ireland 1958-1963
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomLeslie McAllister offers a first selection of colour photographs taken by the late Lance King in the Republic of Ireland in the last years of steam. Lance was a skilled photographer and left a fine record of steam in the Dublin area and on the fondly remembered branches such as Kenmare, Loughrea, Ballaghadereen, Edenderry, Tullow,…
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Roaming around London with a Camera
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomGeoff’s slide show covers specifically what can be seen on the railways of London. The slide show contains a brief selection of older shots but is largely up to date, covering the last 2½ years. The emphasis being on the new and unusual workings.
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The Western Locomotive Association
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomPaul Finch the Vice Chairman & Publicity Officer of the Western Locomotive Association, gives us his presentation covering the highs and lows of preserving and operating three Western Class 52 diesel hydraulic locomotives, for more than four decades.