Virtual Meeting
Out and about post the pandemic – Robert Pritchard
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomRobert presents a wide selection of photos of his recent travels in the UK and Europe from 2021-22 For this virtual event there is a suggested donation of £2. If you wish to contribute just follow the SFD Sheffield branch link below.
Railways at the Dawn of Nationalisation
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomA presentation (via Zoom) of photographs from the Sutton Coldfield Railway Society’s Moseley Archive of over 2000 photographs taken by Percy Moseley between 1911 and the 1970s. This presentation will cover the years from 1946 to 1949 - the time of Nationalisation, when the Big Four became British Railways - and will be made by…
Northampton Gateway
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomFor our first meeting of the year, George Collinson, Sponsor for Network Rail North West & Central Region gives an insight into the development of Northampton Gateway via our online ‘Zoom’ meeting.
A Steam Enthusiast’s Paradise: Turkey 1978-1983
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomIf after the Christmas celebrations you're getting fed up with assum Meleagris gallopavo domesticus, come and enjoy a presentation of Turcorum ferri vapor equis, from excellent photographer Peter Robins. Turkey was a steam enthusiast's paradise between 1978 and 1983 as locos from more than twenty different classes were used over much of the country. The…
The GNR, Colwick to Basford – A trip around the back line
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Christmas Social Evening: – Due to the current weather conditions this is now a Zoom meeting
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomA selection of entertainment, including a “guess the location” quiz, by Robert Pritchard and a short presentation ’60 Years of Railway Snaps' by Jim Bryant. Finish the year in style at RCTS Sheffield! Note due to the short timescale there is no need to register for the meeting as usual. Simply use the "Register with…
Steam in the British Isles in the 1960s
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomA presentation by Tony Bowles of his own images, featuring steam working all around the United Kingdom - on the main lines of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from 1962 onward until the end in 1968, and also of industrial steam into the early 1970s.
Trans-Pennine Traction in the Eighties
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomDerek Huntriss returns with another presentation of his excellent photography, this time from the 1980s, illustrating the railways of the North of England as they cross the Pennines to link the cities of Lancashire and Yorkshire. A show of two halves, in the first we see the every day scene of then modern traction (how…
An Illustrated History of the British Transport Police
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A Tour de France by Narrow Gauge
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomMichael Bunn tells the story of the rise and fall of the secondary 60cm and metre gauge networks once a feature of French railways, and of the tourist and SNCF public service narrow gauge lines still in service.
That Was the Year That Was – 1967
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomAfter looking back a century, and then over the last decade, in our last two meetings, for this month's meeting we split the difference, and are taken back 55 years, to 1967, by excellent photographer (and Watford Branch chairman) Geoff Plumb. This was the penultimate year of regular standard gauge steam on British Railways, and…
British Steam in the Last Decade: a Personal View
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomJeremy Harrison brings a somewhat random selection from his steam photography since he 'went digital' in 2009, as he presents a more up to date presentation than our recent offerings from the last century.