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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2

Burton Railway Society. Marston’s Sports & Social Club, Shobnall Road, Burton-upon-Trent DE14 2BG. 19.30. ‘55 Years of Railway Photography – Part 4’: Les Nixon.

Huddersfield Railway Circle Old Court Room, Huddersfield Town Hall 19.30. ‘Rails to the Arctic’: Phil Lockwood & Enid Vincent.

Pennine Railway Society Club 39, College Rd, Doncaster DN1 3JH.19.30. ‘Herbert Nigel Gresley - The Engineer and his Achievements’. Chris Nettleton.

Railway Correspondence & Travel Society (RCTS) Haig House Social Club, Woolton Rd, Garston, Liverpool L19 5NQ. 13.30. ‘To Hell and Back (50 Years of Railway Photography)’: Bevan Price.

Talking of Trains Surbiton Library, Ewell Rd, Surbiton KT6 6AG. 19.00. ‘Derbyshire’s Railways Revisited’ Dick Crane.

Warwickshire Railway Society Lamp Tavern, Barford St, Highgate, Birmingham B5 6AH. 19.30. ‘Steam in South Africa 1980s’: Bryan Acford.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3

Great Central Railway Society (Sheffield branch) The Harlequin, 108 Nursery St, Sheffield S3 8GG. 19.30. ‘Toy Train to the Clouds’: David Charlesworth.

Lutterworth Railway Society United Reformed Church, George St, Lutterworth LE17 4EF. 19.30. ‘Hinckley in Old Photographs’: Paul Gardner and ‘Proposals for a new Coalmine’: Alan Bilton.

Norfolk Railway Society United Reformed Church Hall, Ipswich Rd, Norwich NR4 6QR. 19.30. ‘The Last 60 Years of Perth and the Highland Main Line to Inverness’: David MacLean.

RCTS Methodist Church Hall, Silver St, Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes MK11 1BE. 19.30. ‘Closed Stations in North London’: Jim Connor.

RCTS Newcastle Arts Centre, 67 Westgate Rd, Newcastle NE1 1SG.19.00. Branch annual meeting and members’ night.

RCTS Saltaire Methodist Chapel, Saltaire Rd, Shipley BD18 3HJ. 14.00. ‘Steam – East of Wakefield’: Roger Hepworth.

Stephenson Locomotive Society (SLS) St John Ambulance Centre, Sandes Ave, Kendal LA9 4LL. 19.15. ‘Railways of Western Turkey - 1978 -

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