TVY Didcot
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…
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,…
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.
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.
Remembering my lines
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomColin Brading gives us a very wide-ranging presentation: starting from his early railway interests and lineside haunts to the highlights of a diverse engineering career spanning fifty years, ‘Remembering My Lines’ is an illustrated medley of memories and experiences seasoned with many of the presenter’s own favourites. On this journey ‘from anorak to hi-vis’ we…
North Staffordshire Railway (Part 4)
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomIn the fourth and final part of the North Staffordshire Railway talks series using digitised images from the collection of over 15,000 colour slides taken by the late Tommy Tomalin (who sadly passed away in 2021 at the grand old age of 96). Brian Sullivan continues by showing us views (with historical details) of the…
Reading Station, Vastern Road Bridge Reconstruction and short AGM
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomFifty years ago, in 1973, construction work started to widen the 12 metre span Vastern Road underbridge east of Reading station to accommodate a 30 metre wide dual carriageway for Stage 3 of Reading Borough Council’s new Inner Distribution Road. This illustrated presentation explores the history of this site at Reading station and describes the…
The Railways of Northern Ontario, Canada in the 1980’s
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomWe travel in Northern Ontario from Marstay and Sudbury to Chelmsford via Azilda, looking at Canadian railways over the past 40 years.
East Anglian Railway Heritage
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomThe presentation includes visits to Heritage Railways in East Anglia from 2011 and more frequent trips to the area following the presenters daughter’s move to Norfolk in 2018, looking at heritage infrastructure on the national railway network and the surprising amount of surviving evidence of the many and varied lines through mainly rural areas many…
The Ivatt LMS 10000 Recreation Project
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomThe Ivatt Diesel Re-creation Society plan to recreate, and operate 10000. In the first half of this presentation we look at the original twins LMS 10000 and 10001 (the first British mainline diesel electric locomotives), and their place in history. 10000 and 10001 were designed by H.G. Ivatt and built by the LMS at…
The North Staffordshire Railway Part 3.
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomBrian Sullivan returns to give us Part III of his North Staffs Railway talk, using historic digitised photos taken by “Tommy” Tomalin. This talk covers the lines that ran to Stone and then onwards to Stoke, with a look at the Trentham Gardens branch. We then turn left at Stoke and run to Market Drayton to meet the…
LMS Patriot Project
TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United KingdomWe are building a working steam locomotive as a National Memorial Engine, recreating a Remembrance link established after the Great War and lost in the 1960s. None of this type of express passenger locomotive – the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) ‘Patriot’ class - survived when steam traction ended in the 60s on British…