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SUMMARY:Remembering my lines
DESCRIPTION: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 will see infrastructure works\, trains and railway scenes of all descriptions\, travelling far and wide on gauges broad and narrow.
URL:https://rcts.org.uk/event/remembering-my-lines/
LOCATION:TVY Didcot\, Didcot Civic Hall\, Britwell Road\, Didcot\, OX11 7JN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Branch Meetings,Indoor Event,TVY Thames Valley
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250121T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250121T163000
DTSTAMP:20241125T204819Z
CREATED:20240828T085834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241125T204819Z
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SUMMARY:North Staffordshire Railway (Part 4)
DESCRIPTION: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 Potteries Loop Line from Etruria Junction to Kidsgrove\, the North Staffs main line from Stoke to Macclesfield\, the Macclesfield Bollington and Marple line (Great Central and North Staffs Joint Line) also known as the Macclesfield Committee Line\, and finally the North Staffs line from Lawton Junction to Sandbach.
URL:https://rcts.org.uk/event/north-staffordshire-railway-part-4/
LOCATION:TVY Didcot\, Didcot Civic Hall\, Britwell Road\, Didcot\, OX11 7JN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Branch Meetings,Indoor Event,TVY Thames Valley
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241217T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241217T163000
DTSTAMP:20240824T152211Z
CREATED:20240808T131853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240824T152211Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Station\, Vastern Road Bridge Reconstruction and short AGM
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis illustrated presentation explores the history of this site at Reading station and describes the development of the bridge design using novel methods to minimise disruption to rail and road traffic and to reduce costs\, including the use of parts of previous buried structures to support the new bridge. \nAlso described are how the bridge design facilitated lowering of the road to increase headroom\, and the construction of a tanking slab below it\, by Reading Borough Council\, and the later extension of the bridge for additional track and platform lengthening in connection with the 2011/13 Reading Station Redevelopment scheme.
URL:https://rcts.org.uk/event/reading-station-vastern-road-bridge-reconstruction-and-short-agm/
LOCATION:TVY Didcot\, Didcot Civic Hall\, Britwell Road\, Didcot\, OX11 7JN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Indoor Event,TVY Thames Valley
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241119T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241119T213000
DTSTAMP:20240824T153848Z
CREATED:20240808T130916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240824T153848Z
UID:10002762-1732042800-1732051800@rcts.org.uk
SUMMARY:The Railways of Northern Ontario\, Canada in the 1980's
DESCRIPTION:We travel in Northern Ontario from Marstay and Sudbury to Chelmsford via Azilda\, looking at\nCanadian railways over the past 40 years.
URL:https://rcts.org.uk/event/the-railways-of-northern-ontario-canada-in-the-1980s/
LOCATION:TVY Didcot\, Didcot Civic Hall\, Britwell Road\, Didcot\, OX11 7JN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Indoor Event,TVY Thames Valley
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241015T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241015T213000
DTSTAMP:20240816T141202Z
CREATED:20240816T141202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240816T141202Z
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SUMMARY:East Anglian Railway Heritage
DESCRIPTION: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 of which closed over 60 years ago.
URL:https://rcts.org.uk/event/east-anglian-railway-heritage/
LOCATION:TVY Didcot\, Didcot Civic Hall\, Britwell Road\, Didcot\, OX11 7JN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Branch Meetings,Indoor Event,TVY Thames Valley
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240917T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240917T213000
DTSTAMP:20240828T092348Z
CREATED:20240808T114454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240828T092348Z
UID:10002761-1726599600-1726608600@rcts.org.uk
SUMMARY:The Ivatt LMS 10000 Recreation Project
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Ivatt Diesel Re-creation Society plan to recreate\, and operate 10000. \nIn 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 their Derby Loco Works in 1947 / 48.  These locos proved many parts and concepts that are still in use on the  railway network today.  However before the  preservation movement had started to take notice of historically important diesel  locomotives\, 10000 was scrapped in 1968. \nIn the second half of this presentation we look at the current project which is planning to recreate 10000.  In recent years this has progressed to the construction of a locomotive chassis in 2022.
URL:https://rcts.org.uk/event/the-ivatt-lms-10000-recreation-project/
LOCATION:TVY Didcot\, Didcot Civic Hall\, Britwell Road\, Didcot\, OX11 7JN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Branch Meetings,Indoor Event,TVY Thames Valley
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240521T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240521T213000
DTSTAMP:20240315T110608Z
CREATED:20231104T162542Z
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SUMMARY:The North Staffordshire Railway Part 3.
DESCRIPTION: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 GWR.  Following this\, we then return to Leek Brook Junction and follow the line via Milton Junction into Stoke.  Finally\, we return to Milton Junction and follow the line to Congleton via the Biddulph Valley. \nThe attached image shows Black Bull station on the Biddulph Valley line. Tommy had managed to get a brake van ride on a Congleton – Stoke freight on 18th February 1967\, and this is the view of the remains of the station looking north. \n 
URL:https://rcts.org.uk/event/the-north-staffordshire-railway-part-3/
LOCATION:TVY Didcot\, Didcot Civic Hall\, Britwell Road\, Didcot\, OX11 7JN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Branch Meetings,Indoor Event,TVY Thames Valley
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rcts.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/thames-valley-branch/240521-Black-Bull-station-from-Brian-Sullivan-1-scaled.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240416T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240416T213000
DTSTAMP:20240315T110303Z
CREATED:20231104T161159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240315T110303Z
UID:10002469-1713294000-1713303000@rcts.org.uk
SUMMARY:LMS Patriot Project
DESCRIPTION:We are building a working steam locomotive as a National Memorial Engine\, recreating a Remembrance link \nestablished after the Great War and lost in the 1960s. \nNone of this type of express passenger locomotive – the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) ‘Patriot’ \nclass – survived when steam traction ended in the 60s on British Railways. When complete\, it will join a select \nfamily of other LMS express passenger locomotives that still operate on our UK railway. \nInspired by the Great War Centenaries of recent years – Armistice Day and the repatriation of the Unknown \nWarrior to Westminster Abbey – the locomotive will be named The Unknown Warrior. This recognizes its \nspecial Remembrance role as a National Memorial Engine\, in memory of servicemen and women lost in the \nFirst World War and all subsequent wars. This special role was performed by the first of the original ‘Patriot’ \nclass – named Patriot – in honour of railway employees who fell in the 1914-1918 War. \nWe believe that this commemorative role\, together with the importance of the locomotive type itself in the \ndevelopment of our railways\, brings a special historical dimension to our work. Our Patron is Simon Weston \nCBE the well-known Falklands War Veteran. \nOur present forecast sees the locomotive completed by 2026\, dependent on our donations trend. Thereafter \nwe intend that the locomotive will be visible as a working memorial on regular display and hauling heritage \ntrains on tours and at special events for many years to come. \nPractically all of the work is new construction\, using traditional engineering and manufacturing skills and based \non original drawings. All of the major manufacturing and assembly work is being done in the UK. Our main \nassembly base is the Princess Royal Class Locomotive Trust (PRCLT) works at West Shed\, Swanwick\, Derbyshire\,
URL:https://rcts.org.uk/event/lms-patriot-project-3/
LOCATION:TVY Didcot\, Didcot Civic Hall\, Britwell Road\, Didcot\, OX11 7JN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Branch Meetings,Indoor Event,TVY Thames Valley
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240319T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240319T213000
DTSTAMP:20240315T105406Z
CREATED:20231104T155039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240315T105406Z
UID:10002468-1710874800-1710883800@rcts.org.uk
SUMMARY:Over The Mendips
DESCRIPTION:The Somerset & Dorset Railway originally ran from Burnham-on-Sea to Wimborne\, \nlinking the Bristol and English Channels. In 1874 an extension opened from \nEvercreech Junction over the Mendip Hills to link with the Midland Railway at Bath \nwhich immediately became the main line. Passenger trains included through \nexpresses from the Midlands and North to the South Coast until 1962\, freight saw \ncoal and stone from the Mendip collieries and quarries\, before finally closing as a \nthrough route in 1966. This illustrated talk marks 150 years since the Bath \nextension’s opening and contains a selection of historic pictures showing the \nconstruction\, doubling and operation of the line from the archives of the Somerset & \nDorset Railway Trust as well as images of the infrastructure still remaining along the \nroute. \nThe presenter\, Mike Beale is descended from 3 generations of S&D railwaymen\, was \nborn in Bath and has worked for British Rail and an international railway consultant. \nHe has been a member of the Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust since 1974\, was \nchairman from 1985 to 1991 and a Trustee from 1999 until 2016. \n 
URL:https://rcts.org.uk/event/over-the-mendips-2/
LOCATION:TVY Didcot\, Didcot Civic Hall\, Britwell Road\, Didcot\, OX11 7JN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Branch Meetings,Indoor Event,TVY Thames Valley
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240220T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240220T163000
DTSTAMP:20231107T095424Z
CREATED:20231104T151537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231107T095424Z
UID:10002467-1708437600-1708446600@rcts.org.uk
SUMMARY:Western Enterprise
DESCRIPTION: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 connections with musings on the railway’s legend through time. Idiosyncratic\, controversial\, pioneering\, often successful but sometimes also accused of building ‘castles in the air’\, the three letters GWR continue to evoke great passion
URL:https://rcts.org.uk/event/western-enterprise/
LOCATION:TVY Didcot\, Didcot Civic Hall\, Britwell Road\, Didcot\, OX11 7JN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Branch Meetings,Indoor Event,TVY Thames Valley
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://rcts.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/thames-valley-branch/240220-Western-at-Paddington-1-from-Colin-Brading-scaled.jpg
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240116T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240116T213000
DTSTAMP:20231104T150015Z
CREATED:20231104T150015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231104T150015Z
UID:10002466-1705431600-1705440600@rcts.org.uk
SUMMARY:Rail Reminiscences
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://rcts.org.uk/event/rail-reminiscences/
LOCATION:TVY Didcot\, Didcot Civic Hall\, Britwell Road\, Didcot\, OX11 7JN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Branch Meetings,Indoor Event,TVY Thames Valley
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