Virtual Meeting
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Events at this venue
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FeaturedA 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.
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FeaturedThat 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…
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FeaturedBritish 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.
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Featured‘Twixt War and Grouping
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomA selection of images of Britain's Railways between 1919 and 1922 - the period between the Armistice and the Grouping, now a century ago - drawn from the Ken Nunn collection (of the LCGB/NRM), and presented by Jeremy Harrison.
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FeaturedWas That Really 40 Years Ago?
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomTime to turn the clock back over 40 years! Having re-discovered his camera, David Allen journeys throughout BR between 1978 and 1981, with a presentation of the often neglected BR Blue era for all to enjoy.
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FeaturedThe Paul Riley Commemorative Show – Part 1 1961-1965
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomThis presentation, by Tony Bowles of The Restoration & Archiving Trust, covers all regions of BR & a wide variety of traffic. It is all colour and covers the Western & Southern Regions in the first half and the remainder after the break.
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FeaturedThe Phoenix Railway-Photographic Circle
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomThe Phoenix Railway-Photographic Circle is an organisation whose principal aim is to encourage the creation of high-quality, imaginative railway photographs of the contemporary railway scene. In this meeting we will hear about the Circle's work; how it was formed and how it operates; and the inside story behind the book, "50 Years of Phoenix", published…
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Southern Coaches – Part 1, The Maunsell Era
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomWhile locomotives - especially of the steam variety - took the glory, the coaches that they hauled were just as important. Mike King comes to tell of those introduced by the Southern Railway between the grouping of 1923 and the late 1930s, under the supervision of Richard Maunsell, its first Chief Mechanical Engineer.
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The Wrexham & Shropshire Railway
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomMerseyside, Cheshire & North Wales branch · Presenter: Geoff Plumb
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FeaturedSteam Variety in Northern China
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomPeter Robins returns, with a presentation showing the splendour of steam in China, the fruit of several visits that he made. Starting with an April 1988 visit which covered from Nancha in the North East to Lanzhou in the West, the show includes loco construction at Datong and Tangshan as well as the older JF/RM/SL…
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Revolution Very Light Rail Development, by Darren Smith
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomDARREN SMITH, from Transport Design International, presents a talk about the Revolution Very Light Railway Train currently being tested at Ironbridge.
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Getting The Balance Right
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomFor this National - International - Zoom Meeting we are joining the Locomotive Club of Great Britain and the Continental Railway Circle, for a presentation by Australian author and historian Trevor Edmonds from Dorrigo, New South Wales, on 'How the British Army learned to operate military railways before the First World War', an experience which…