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Meetings

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3

Pennine Railway Society Club 39, College Rd, Doncaster DN1 3JH. 20.00. ‘Doncaster to Grantham’: Steve Armitage.

RCTS Haig House Social Club, Woolton Rd, Garston, Liverpool L19 5NQ. 13.30. ‘Liverpool Exchange’: Paul Wright.

Talking of Trains Surbiton Library, Ewell Rd, Surbiton KT6 6AG. 19.00. ‘Midland Railway 150’: Dick Crane.

Warwickshire Railway Society Lamp Tavern, Barford St, Highgate, Birmingham B5 6AH. 19.30. ‘More B & W Images from the 1960s’: Phil Stevens.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4

Bath Railway Society Church Hall, St Mary’s Church Hall, Bathwick Bath. 19.30. ‘The History of The Railways of Southampton’: Gordon Adams.

Great Central Railway Society (Sheffield branch) The Harlequin, 108 Nursery St, Sheffield S3 8GG. 19.30. ‘The Hill Railways of India’: Mike Fish.

Lutterworth Railway Society United Reformed Church, George St, Lutterworth LE17 4EF. 19.30. ‘Trains in the Snow’: Les Nixon.

Norfolk Railway Society United Reformed Church Hall, Ipswich Rd, Norwich NR4 6QR. 19.30. ‘Ipswich - a Railway Junction in the East’: John Day.

RCTS The Methodist Church Hall, Silver St, Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes MK11 1BE. 19.30. ‘A History of DMUs’: Colin Boocock.

RCTS Arts Centre, 67 Westgate Rd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 1SG. 19.00. Newcastle branch annual meeting and members’ night.

Stephenson Locomotive Society (SLS) St John’s Ambulance Centre, Sandes Ave, Kendal LA9 4LL. 19.15. ‘The Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway’: Stephen Walker.

Friends of the Stockton & Darlington Railway Darlington Cricket Club, South Terrace, Feethams, Darlington DL1 5JD. 19.10. Monthly meeting.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5

RCTS St Peter’s Church Hall, Church Rd, Filton, Bristol BS34 7BX. 19.30. ‘Peter Gray’s West Country’: Amyas Crump.

Slough & Windsor Railway Society The Manor, Brunel Way, Slough Station. 19.45. ‘Romania’: Derek Spicer.

SLS Newport Community Hub, St Paul’s Rd, Middlesbrough TS15NQ. 19.00 . ‘German Narrow Gauge’: Nick Wise.

SLS Conference Room, 1st floor (access via Black Swan Court Yard), Newcastle Arts Centre, 67 Westgate Rd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 1SG. 19.00. ‘Let’s Celebrate’ (a Look at the 1875, 1925 & 1975 Celebrations/Let’s Celebrate for the SLS): Richard Barber.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6

SLS Friends’ Meeting House, Mount St, Manchester M2 5NS. 14.00. ‘Lynton & Barnstaple Railway - Towards the Next Stage’: Robert Barnard.

North Eastern Railway Society Bar Convent, York. 10.00. ‘Berlin 1986’: John Teasdale and ‘Narrow Gauge Steam Nirvana, Colorado’: Ian Mitchell opens the meeting. Neil

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