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  • TVY Branch – The History of the North London Line

    TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United Kingdom

    The presentation explores the fluctuating history of the North London line and includes a photographic journey from Richmond to the former Terminus of Broad Street.

  • TVY Branch – The Mangotsfield Triangle – Lost Midland Railway routes to Bristol and Bath

    TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United Kingdom

    The 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.

  • TVY Branch – Recent and Future Projects at Didcot Railway Centre

    TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United Kingdom

    Richard 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 Kingdom

    Leslie 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 Kingdom

    Geoff’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 Kingdom

    Paul 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 Kingdom

    Colin 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 Kingdom

    In 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 Kingdom

    Fifty 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…

  • East Anglian Railway Heritage

    TVY Didcot Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, United Kingdom

    The 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 Kingdom

      The 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…