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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…

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…

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 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…

Brian 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…

We 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…

Significant investment over recent years has radically changed the face of the Great Western, a railway so rich in history that parts have been considered worthy of UNESCO World Heritage status. Setting the scene with a brief look at today's railway, this talk ranges widely across the route, blending aspects of the speaker's fifty-year western…

A personal retrospective looking back over the last 50 years to date at the ‘Big Railway’, Main Line Steam, the maturing Preservation scene and with a little infrastructure and Overseas thrown in.