Virtual Meeting
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Günter Oczko and friends – Steam Worldwide between 1970 and 2024
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomGünter is promising a further selection of excellent Steam photography from around the world, featuring both his own work, and of his friends Bernhard Haseneder and Dirk Hoellerhage. Countries featured include Germany (both West and East), Czechoslovakia, Turkey, India, South Africa and China, over the last half century (and a bit). An event to bring…
My Early Photography, 1959-1966
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomRobin Patrick gives a presentation of his early black & white photography, from 1959 to 1966, a period in which he started his railway career at Roade. So 1964 with steam on WCML - the year he would most like to go back to - features strongly. But he also travelled around the country, visiting…
The Narrow Gauge Railways of France
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomTony Bowles brings us another selection from The Restoration & Archiving Trust, this time comprising a mixture of colour and black & white photographs covering the narrow gauge lines in France that were still existed from the mid 1950s onwards, starting in Corsica & finishing on the Reseau Breton. For this virtual event, you will…
A 1968 Jet Search for Steam
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomThe introduction of “Pacesetter” fares for under-26-year-olds in 1968 made international air travel much more affordable, and Frank Stamford - our regular Australian attendee - took advantage of them to make a fifteen-week round the world trip in search of steam, visiting Indonesia, the British Isles, Western Europe (from Portugal to West Germany), and South…
European Steam – a Video Miscellany
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomMichael Grieves started taking cine film in the 1960s, and from 1969 into the 1970s, took much on various trips to Europe in search of steam, which has now been scanned into digital format. Tonight he will show a miscellany, drawing from trips to Czechoslovakia, Austria - featuring the Vordernberg rack line in winter -…
A Southern Miscellany, from the RCTS Photographic Archive
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomDavid Jackman will present "A Southern Miscellany", as seen through the lens of photographers who have passed their images to the Society's Photographic Archive, featuring a potpourri of photographs from the 1950s onwards (mainly from the 60s and 70s), including a wide selection of steam, diesel and electric motive power across the region, from the…
Railways Remembered – North East England
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomRecently published by Crécy is Railways Remembered: North East England. This full colour volume covers the area from the Scottish Border to the Tees, and inland to the North Pennines. All facets of railway operations are covered: steam, diesel and electric; town and country; freight and passenger; BR and industry. One of the co-authors, Charles…
Railways in 1950 and 1951, from the Sutton Coldfield Railway Society’s Moseley collection
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomA further presentation of photographs from the Sutton Coldfield Railway Society’s Moseley Archive of over 2000 photographs taken by the late Percy Moseley between 1911 and the 1970s. Following previous presentations of images from the 1940s, this will cover the years 1950 and 1951 – just after Nationalisation, when British Railways was establishing its own…
Slovakia’s Railways – 12 years of travels
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomRobert Pritchard will give a presentation on the railways of Slovakia over the last 12 years, from 2012 to 2023. He will give us a tour of Slovakia by rail including some general interest photos and maybe the odd tram thrown in. The talk will be in three geographical sections - covering the capital Bratislava…
‘Railways in and around World War Two’, by Robin Mathams
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomNote this is a Virtual Zoom Meeting for which you can register via the ‘Register with Zoom’ link below. There is no charge for this meeting but donations would be gratefully received, these can be made by following the ‘organiser’ link, also below.
East West Rail Update & The Newport Nobby
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomJoin us for another evening of members' presentations on Zoom. Clive Pepper will present an update on the developments with East West Rail and Steve Dexter will take a look back at the Newport Pagnell branch line.
From War to Nationalisation: Britain’s Railways from 1945 into the 1950s
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomA presentation from the LCGB/NRM Ken Nunn collection, by Jeremy Harrison, of images from 1945 into the 1950s. This was a period of rapid change, as the railways changed from their drab, run down appearence at the end of the war, to a bright, clean new order, with the first glimpses of modernisation and a…