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Meetings

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4

Peak Rail Association (Sheffield branch) The Harlequin, 108 Nursery St, Sheffield S3 8GG. 19.30. ‘My Swansong – Part 2’: Ken Horan.

Plymouth Railway Circle St Edward’s Church Hall, Home Park Ave, Peverell, Plymouth PL3 4PG. 19.30. ‘Strictly Stralsund’: Richard Green.

Railway Correspondence and Travel Society (RCTS) Christ Church Community Hall, Burney Lane, Ward End, Birmingham B8 2AS. 14.00. ‘A Selection of Narrow Gauge Railways’: Ken Johnston.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5

Leicester Railway Society (Celebrating 80th anniversary) The Cricketers, Grace Rd, Leicester LE2 8AD. 14.00. ‘Railways Around Northamptonshire – Part 4’: Robin Cullop.

RCTS Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Rd, Watford WD17 1JJ. 19.00. ‘Two Quaint Undergrounds – The Glasgow Subway and the Post Office Railway’: Brian Hardy.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6

Pennine Railway Society Club 39, 39 College Rd, Waterdale, Doncaster DN1 3JH. 20.00. ‘Diverted! Wakefield to Leeds via Huddersfield, Barnsley and Castleford’: Enid Vincent & Phil Lockwood.

RCTS Haig House Social Club, Woolton Rd, Garston, Liverpool L19 5NQ. 13.30. ‘North West and North Wales Reminiscences of the 1960s’: John Cashen.

Talking of Trains Surbiton Library, Ewell Rd, Surbiton KT6 6AG. 19.00. ‘The Name’s the Same’: Dick Crane.

Warwickshire Railway Society Lamp Tavern, Barford St, Highgate, Birmingham B5 6AH. 19.30. ‘Steam in Southern Africa’: Bryan Acford.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7

Bath Railway Society Church Hall, St Mary’s Church Hall, Bathwick, Bath. 19.30. ‘Western Rail Link to Heathrow’: Anna Holbrook.

Ffestiniog Railway Society (Bristol area group) BAWA Club, Southmead Rd, Bristol BS34 7RF. 19.45. ‘Chinese Takeaway’: Importing and re-gauging a modern steam loco for the Ffestiniog Railway’: Paul Molyneux-Berry.

Great Central Railway Society (Sheffield branch of GCR) The Harlequin, 108 Nursery St, Sheffield S3 8GG. 19.30. ‘Around Ireland on the Tree Futt’: Ken Grainger.

Lutterworth Railway Society United Reformed Church, George St, Lutterworth LE17 4EF. 19.30. ‘Bring a thing – your opportunity for five minutes of fame. Come and talk about an item of

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