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    Meetings

    Nov 04, 2018 11 minutes

    WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7

    Basingstoke & District Railway Society Wote St Club, New Rd, Basingstoke RG21 7NG. 19.45. Members’ photo competition.

    Bradford Railway Circle Sedbergh Community Centre, Huddersfield Rd, Odsal, Bradford BD16 1DJ. 19.30. Photo competition: Tom Ickringhill.

    Pennine Railway Society Club 39, College Rd, Doncaster DN1 3JH. 20.00. ‘55 Years of Railway Preservation’: Les Nixon.

    Talking of Trains Surbiton Library, Ewell Rd, Surbiton KT6 6AG. 19.00. ‘Welsh Rail Revival’: Tom Joyner, Managing Director, Arriva Trains Wales.

    Warwickshire Railway Society Lamp Tavern, Barford St, Highgate, Birmingham, B5 6AH. 19.30. ‘The Big Four – Steam in the 1950s and 60s’: Ken Taylor.

    THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8

    Continental Railway Circle St Paul’s Church Centre, Rossmore Rd, Marylebone, London NW1 6NJ. 19.15. ‘Tribute to Nick Tindall’: Tony Eaton.

    RCTS/SRPS Quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2HE. 19.30. ‘Ex-North British and Caledonian Railways in Granton and Leith’: Kenneth Williamson.

    RCTS Arts Centre, 67 Westgate Rd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 1SG. 19.00. ‘The National Railway Museum at York’: Anthony Coulls.

    Severn Valley Railway (Cheshire branch) Queens Hotel, Sunderland St, Macclesfield SK11 6JW. 19.45. ‘Slides from his own collection’: Alf Storey.

    FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9

    Great Western Society (GWS) Lawn Community Centre, Guildford Ave, off Windsor Rd, Lawn, Swindon SN3 1JE. 19.15. TBA.

    Shropshire Railway Society Gateway Education and Arts Centre, Chester St, Shrewsbury SY1 1NB. 19.30. ‘Railways on the Western Front’: John Rimmer.

    Slough & Windsor Railway Society The Manor, Brunel Way, Slough Station. 19.45. SWRS v Reading Transport Group quiz.

    SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10

    Cornwall Railway Society Memorial Hall, Methodist Church, Redruth (up the hill from the station). 18.30. ‘Hidden Railways of Plymouth’: Paul Burkhalter.

    Stephenson Locomotive Society (SLS) Kidderminster Railway Museum (adjoining SVR station), Kidderminster DY10 1QX. 14.00. ‘Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway, its History and Development’.

    SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11

    St Albans Signalbox Preservation Trust

    St Albans South Signalbox. 14.00-17.00. Open Day. www.sigbox.co.uk

    MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12

    Lincoln Railway Society St Hugh’s Church, Harewood Cres,

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