• Branch AGM, followed by ‘The Indian Hill Railways’, by David Brace

    WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United Kingdom

    The Branch AGM will commence at 19:00 and we will get through this as quickly as we can! All present committee members are willing to continue in their posts - many thanks to them for their service over the past year. This will be followed by David Brace with a presentation on 'The Indian Hill…

  • ‘Members’ Presentations’, plus Lizzie’s Mince Pies and Sausage Rolls!

    WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United Kingdom

    Another chance for Watford Branch members to show off your prowess with a camera (but don’t worry about the quality, feel the width!) – stills or videos, film or digital. Please bring along some 35mm slides or image files on a memory stick or DVD disc and we’ll endeavour to treat everyone to your photographic…

  • ‘Behind Closed Doors’ and ‘Underground Photos From the Past’, by Brian Hardy

    WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United Kingdom

    BRIAN HARDY: "Brian will give a two part presentation, 'Behind Closed Doors' (a look at disused parts of the Underground) and 'Underground Photos from the Past' (in black and white and colour)". Please note this is a change of subject matter from that originally advertised. 'Underground Photos From the Past' - Piccadilly Line and Metropolitan…

  • Geoff Brockett returns with a new show: ‘Roaming Around London with a Camera’

    WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United Kingdom

    GEOFF BROCKETT returns  with a new show ‘Roaming around London with a Camera’ Those of us who live in London are very lucky for the sheer variety of rolling stock and liveries that can be seen. This is a quick-fire show of images taken in Greater London over the last two to three years that…

  • The ‘LMS Patriot Project’, by Colin Hall, followed by ‘Rob’s Railway Years: the 1980s’, by Rob Freeman.

    WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United Kingdom

    In place of John Day’s postponed presentation, we now have a two-part meeting. Colin Hall is the Chair of the LMS Patriot Project and will be giving us a frank first-hand presentation on the experiences and challenges faced recently and what is being done to move the project forward. The LMS-Patriot Project - Our aims…

  • That Was the Year That Was – 1974, by Geoff Plumb

    WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United Kingdom

    Geoff Plumb, Watford Branch Chairman, presents another in the series ‘That Was the Year That Was’, this time covering 1974, with a look behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany and Poland, also West Germany and a smattering of the UK.

  • ‘A Broad Gauge Journey from Paddington to the West – Part 1’, by Brian Arman

    WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United Kingdom

    The Society’s President, the Reverend Canon Brian Arman, visits the Watford Branch for the first time to present the first of his acclaimed series of talks on the Great Western Railway, ‘A Broad Gauge Journey from Paddington to the West – Part 1’. We look forward to seeing Brian, branch members, visitors and guests –…

  • Mangapps Railway, by John Jolly (Postponed). Now – Wrexham & Shropshire, a Photographic Retrospective, by Geoff Plumb

    WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United Kingdom

    THIS IS A CHANGE OF PROGRAMME. Unfortunately, JOHN JOLLY from the Mangapps Railway has had to postpone this talk due to Covid issues. At short notice, Watford Branch Chairman GEOFF PLUMB has stepped in with a photographic presentation on the Wrexham & Shropshire Railway, a short-lived open access operator that certainly made its mark! Please…

  • Watford Branch AGM, Followed by ‘Vivarail:designing and building low-emission trains in the UK’, by David Horton

    WFD Watford Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford, United Kingdom

    WATFORD BRANCH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. Yet another opportunity for you to volunteer as an officer of the Committee of the RCTS Watford Branch - START 19:15 PLUS: DAVID HORTON visits for the first time with “Vivarail: designing and building low-emission trains in the UK”. Please note this is a PHYSICAL meeting. Synopsis: Since 2018, Vivarail…