Virtual Meeting
Virtual meetings are held using Zoom. Attendees should pre-register using the unique link provided for that event. Numbers may be limited.
India (Part 1)
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomPeter Robins presents images from his trips to India (and on into Pakistan) in the 1980s. India was always a wonderful but slightly frustrating country that was full of surprises - some good, some not so. From visits made in 1981 and 1987, this presentation includes a variety of steam classes at work on both…
Railways before (and during) the War – that’s the Great War! (Part 3)
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomA further presentation of Black and White images, drawn from the Ken Nunn collection and scanned from glass plates, illustrating railways in Britain before the Great War. Tonight’s is the final part, featuring Welsh railways, ventures to Belgium and France, and then a wider look at British railways in 1914 and 1915, when it was…
Railways Remembered in 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…
North from Kings Cross – Photos from the RCTS Archive
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomA photographic review of the southern ECML, drawn from the Society’s Photographic archive by David Jackman. This features both the steam and diesel eras – while not completely forgetting the electric era – with the odd deviation along the way.
Milton Keynes Branch Zoom Meeting – ‘Colourful North Bucks’
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomJoin us for our second meeting of the year on Zoom – Clive Pepper will take us on a look back over the last forty years at some of the railway traffic and operations in North Bucks. Particular emphasis will be on the wide variety of colourful liveries seen on both passenger and freight workings…
WFD Branch Zoom Meeting – ‘The History of the Severn Valley Railway’, by Bernie Holland, 4th February 2025
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomBernie Holland takes us from Shrewsbury to Hartlebury and Kidderminster taking in the branch from Northwood to Woofferton. Black and white and colour images from the 1950s and 1960s along with some views of what remains in preservation between Bridgnorth and Kidderminster. Please note this is a virtual Zoom meeting, you will need to register via the…
Railways before the War – that’s the Great War! (Part 2)
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomA further presentation of Black and White images, drawn from the Ken Nunn collection and scanned from glass plates, illustrating railways in Britain before the Great War. Tonight's is the second of the three parts, featuring Southern and Western (the railways which would be amalgamated into the Southern, GWR and LMSR in 1923). The Ken…
Metropolitan Lancashire & The West Riding
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomThe Late Gerald Dixon Collection The show covers areas of Lancashire from Preston southwards and much of the West Riding of Yorkshire with a brief incursion into North Yorkshire to York. It is all in colour and with the pictures almost exclusively depicting steam operations between 1962 & 1968.
Railways 1933-36, 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 and early 1950s, for this evening's presentation we return to the pre-war era of the early 1930s, when many…
Milton Keynes Branch Zoom Meeting – ‘The Ramblings of a Railwayman’
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomFor our first meeting of the year, please join us on Zoom for a presentation by career railwayman Geoff Burch. During ‘The Ramblings of a Railwayman’ Geoff talks about his first interest in railways as a train spotter and as a 15 year old straight from school starting his career as an engine cleaner, working…
A Touch of Winter
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomThis presentation is a variety of images with a definite cold winter theme starting in the UK then moving through Europe, to Ukraine and on to China. If (as is likely based on recent years) we have missed out on a White Christmas, this will make up for it; and if perchance the weather is…
Testing and Commissioning the IC225s
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomDave Coxon started work for British Railways at the Loco Works in Derby in 1964. During his long career Dave has worked for the LM CM&EE, the DM&EE and R&DD, for Serco and latterly for Bombardier in Derby. Dave was part of the Commissioning Section at the RTC Derby who were involved with testing and…