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Meetings

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4

Peak Rail Association (Sheffield branch) The Harlequin, 108 Nursery St, Sheffield S3 8GG. 19.30. ‘Where would you like to go?’: Anthony Hicks.

Plymouth Railway Circle St Edward’s Church Hall, Home Park Ave, Peverell, Plymouth PL3 4PG. 19.30. Annual meeting followed by President’s selection.

Railway Correspondence & Travel Society (RCTS) Christ Church Community Hall, Burney Lane, Ward End, Birmingham B8 2AS.14.00. ‘An Eighth Colour-Rail Journey’: Paul Chancellor.

RCTS Weston Favell Parish Hall, Booth Lane South, Weston Favell, Northampton NN7 3EP. 14.00. ‘Rhapsody in Blue’: Ken Grainger.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5

Chipping Norton Railway Club Chipping Norton Town Hall, Market Place, Chipping Norton OX7 5NA. 19.30. ‘Cotswold Line Task Force’: Ian Baxter.

Enfield Transport Circle Enfield Drill Hall, 1 Old Park Ave, Enfield, Middx EN2 6PJ. 20.00. ‘The Great Railway Revolution’: Christian Wolmar.

Gravesend Railway Enthusiasts’Society Emmanuel Baptist Church, 50 Windmill St, Gravesend DA12 1BB. 19.30. ‘A dream unfulfilled’: George Marcar.

RCTS Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Rd, Watford WD17 1JJ. 19.00. ‘European Miscellany’: Rob Freeman.

Worcester Locomotive Society Barbourne ex-Services club, The Moors, Worcester WR1 3ED. 19.00. ‘Worcester Shrub Hill station - the Station Buildings from a Historical Perspective’: Mike Napthan.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6

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

Burton Railway Society Marston’s Sports & Social Club, Shobnall Road, Burton-upon-Trent DE14 2BG. 19.30. ‘An Eighth Colour-Rail Journey’: Paul Chancellor.

Pennine Railway Society Club 39, 39 College Rd, Doncaster DN1 3JH. 19.30. ‘Pre 1968 BR Steam’: Les Nixon.

RCTS Greenfinch Church Hall, Greenfinch Ave, Ipswich IP2 OSQ. 14.15. ‘Lt. Col. Holman F Stephens – The Man and his Empire’: Hugh Smith.

Talking of Trains Surbiton Library, Ewell Rd, Surbiton KT6 6AG. 19.00. ‘Strictly Freight Only – Part 1’: Brian Ringer.

Warwickshire Railway Society Lamp Tavern, Barford St, Highgate, Birmingham B5 6AH. 19.30. ‘UK Industrial Steam from the 1960s and 1970s’: Mike Nicholls.

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