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FeaturedRailways before the War – that’s the Great War! (Part 2)
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomVirtual EventA 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…
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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.
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FeaturedRailways 1933-36, from the Sutton Coldfield Railway Society’s Moseley collection
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomVirtual EventA 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…
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Milton Keynes Branch Zoom Meeting – ‘The Ramblings of a Railwayman’
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomVirtual EventFor 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…
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FeaturedA Touch of Winter
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomVirtual EventThis 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…
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FeaturedTesting and Commissioning the IC225s
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomVirtual EventDave 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…
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FeaturedRailways before the War – that’s the Great War! (Part 1)
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomVirtual EventA 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 first of three parts, starting with a few images from before the Great Boer War (as it was known at the time), and then featuring Eastern…
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FeaturedKeeping a heritage railway going in the 2020s using 1950s equipment with all the attendant modern day requirements
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomVirtual EventSome challenges never change, such as when winter strikes. Here Phil Pritchard is on snow portering duty, helping to keep the railway running safely on 3 December 2010. Image credit: David Layland/East Lancs Railway. David Layland (East Lancashire Light Railway Co Director of Finance and RCTS member) will present an illustrated PowerPoint presentation. He will…
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FeaturedInside Story - The Railway Observer: Building a Society Magazine
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomVirtual EventIf you have ever wondered how every month the RO gets from raw information to your doorstep, Mike Robinson, Managing Editor of The Railway Observer, will be describing in this illustrated presentation what we do and how we do it. If you are interested in our editorial and image selection process or have ever considered…
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FeaturedPerhaps the 1990s were more Interesting than I Originally Thought!
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomVirtual EventA look back some three decades (how time flies! - that's a longer geriod than the 'Big Four' lasted), to the end of the nationalised railway era. Our presenter David Allen writes: "Suppose I was generally lucky in when a New Year dawned my thoughts were on what was a priority to photograph rather than…
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FeaturedSteam in Romania and Elsewhere
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomA two part presentation, by two of our German stalwarts. In the first half, Helmut Dahlhaus will show photos by his late brother Hans Dieter Dahlhaus of steam on Căile Ferate Române (Romanian Railways) between 1968 and 1980, to be followed from some his own images of steam in Czechoslovakia. For a more powerful express…
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FeaturedTransforming the West Highland Line
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomFormer Society Chairman and British Rail Business Manager Highland Callum MacLeod joins us to tell of the challenges that faced the West Highland Line in the early 1980s, and the changes, upgrades and transformation that followed in meeting and overcoming these through that decade. These included the introduction of RETB signalling and DMUs, together with…