Speaker

Subject

2024

20 September 2024

Peter Gibbs

Concorde – 'First to Last' film show

19 July 2024

Brian Arman

Swindon Works from the beginning (part 1)

17 May 2024

Lionel Jones

A potted history of the West Somerset Railway

15 March 2024

Philip Lovell

Early BR slides

26 January 2024

Ian Bennett

Lost Branch Lines

2023

24 November 2023

Ian Bennett

change in programme

15 September 2023

Brian Arman

The GWR Broad Gauge – part 5 Newton Abbot to Penzance

14 July 2023

Steve Osman

The Wrington Vale Light Railway

19 May 2023

Peter Lander

The Regeneration of Birnbeck Pier

31 March 2023

Clive Burlton

The Life and Times of Harry Dolman

27 January 2023

Brian Arman

The GWR Broad Gauge – part 4

2022

25 November 2022

Clive Burlton

Bristol's Lost City

16 September 2022

Philip Lovell

'A Railway Miscellany'

15 July 2022

John Crockford-Hawley

Town Planning and Local Railways

20 May 2022

Lionel Jones

'Scanning the Past'

18 March 2022

Brian Arman

The GWR Broad Gauge – part 3

28 January 2022

Ian Bennett

Railways in the 60s and 70s

2021

19 November 2021

Brian Margetson

'A celebration of trams and street cars around the world'

15 October 2021

Dave Burnett

Modelling the WC&PR

17 September 2021

Bob Edwardes

'The plot of the Route Survey'

Earlier 2021 meetings cancelled due to coronavirus

2020

Remaining 2020 meetings cancelled due to coronavirus

24 January 2020

Richard Harman

'A trip down the Somerset & Dorset ... and the Branch'

2019

23 November 2019

George Reekie

'A photographer's approach to steam'

13 September 2019

Peter Triggs

'The Living Landscape'

12 July 2019

Ian Bennett

'A Miscellany of Railways' - part 2

17 May 2019

Peter Davey

'Around Bristol by tram'

15 March 2019

Gerry Nichols

Mark Warburton’s photographs of the branch lines of Devon and Somerset

25 January 2019

Roy Ackrill

'Elf and Safety – Myth or Fact.'

2018

16 November 2018

Brian Arman

'A Broad Gauge Journey' Part 2 (Swindon to the West)

28 September 2018

Tony Bagwell

'Pilgrimage to the Prancing Horse' – a railway trip through Switzerland and Italy to Maranello

20 July 2018

Ian Bennett

'A Miscellany of Railways'

11 May 2018

Gerry Nichols

'Steam around Bristol'

16 March 2018

Alan Matthews

'The Portishead Branch – Past, Present & Future’

26 January 2018

Richard Harman

The Brecon and Merthyr Railway

2017

24 November 2017

Andy Chapman

Restoring Sentinel 7109 'Joyce' at Midsomer Norton

15 September 2017

Lionel Jones

A History of the West Somerset Railway

28 July 2017

Alan Freke

'The GWR Badminton Line – How it was built and used'

19 May 2017

Howard Parker

The Vale of Berkeley Railway

24 March 2017

Arthur Turner

'Narrow Gauge in Great Britain'

27 January 2017

Brian Arman

'A Broad Gauge Journey' Part 1(Paddington to Swindon)

2016

25 November 2016

Ian Bennett

'Last days of the S&D'

23 September 2016

Lionel Jones

'Railways, Yesterday & Today'

15 July 2016

Trevor Riddle

'Locomotives that Colonel Stephens might have bought'

06 May 2016

Tony Bagwell

'Fading Images' – Swiss and local railway images

04 March 2016

Elizabeth Rhodes

Social history 1885-1950 entitled "Life before teabags"

29 January 2016

Mark Youngman

Great Western Railway

2015

27 Nov 2015

Alan Cooper

Nostalgic trains and trams of the Isle of Man

11 Sept 2015

Trevor Riddle

'Steam around Northampton'

17 July 2015

Elaine Robinson from Network Rail

'The electrification of the London Paddington to South Wales Line'

8 May 2015

Kyle Bosworth

‘The 4472 Flying Scotsman trip to America’

27 March 2015

Clive Burlton

‘Trenches to Trams’ – from the trenches of WW1 to working with Bristol Tramways

30 January 2015

Terry Temlett

The Somerset & Dorset Railway – The Branch & its Twigs

2014

28 November 2014

Brian Margetson

Trains, Trams and Trolleys on the West Coast of the USA

19 Sept 2014

Ian Bennett

The Southern in the 60s

25 July 2014

Brian Lomas

Tram-Trains – Fad or future?

23 May 2014

Christopher Redwood

Chronicling the WC&PR – part 2

28 March 2014

Peter Triggs

Scenic Railways in the South West

24 January 2014

Richard Harman

Cheddar Valley & East Somerset Railways

2013

29 November 2013

Terry Nicholls

Cine films on Vintage Bristol in the 1960s and the Somerset & Dorset

20 September 2013

Eric Miles

Somerdale Railway & Recovery of the Sentinel.

26 July 2013

Bob Edwardes

Living with Lizzie

24 May 2013

Roy Ball

My life on the Western footplate Part 2

15 March 2013

Christopher Redwood

Chronicling the WC&PR

18 January 2013

 Meeting cancelled due to snow

2012

29 November 2012

Alan Cooper

Brian Margetson

'Snowdon Spectacular'

'The heavy end of my Collection'

7 September 2012

Terry Temlett

The Somerset and Dorset Railway – The Bath Extension

13 July 2012

Peter Adams

The Dean Forest Railway

11 May 2012

Mike Oakley

Somerset stations Then & Now

23 March 2012

Roy Ball

My life on the GWR Footplate

20 January 2012

Ian Bennett

The Early Preservation Scene in the 1970s and ‘80s

2011

25 November 2011

Alan Cooper

Reflections of a Railway – The story of the WC&P

2 September 2011

John Baxter

Midsomer Norton – from Sabotaged & Defeated to Slow & Dirty once again

15 July 2011

Peter Davey

The Clifton Rocks Railway

13 May 2011

Paul Gower

The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway

18 March 2011

Roy Ball

Right Away to Chippenham

28 January 2011

Ian Bennett

Railways of the Isle of Wight

2010

26 November 2010

Nigel Coombes

Paddle Steamers of the Bristol Channel

10 September 2010

Roy Patterson

Pre-Beeching Branch Lines in Colour

16 July 2010

Brian Margetson

The Bristol & South Wales Union Railway

14 May 2010

Ian Bennett

The Somerset & Dorset Railway in the 1960s

26 March 2010

Greg Hunt

WC&PR Route Survey

22 January 2010

Maurice Dudman

Bygone Bristol – A Steam Lover’s Paradise

2009

20 November 2009

Tony Ward

The Railways of Colonel Stephens

14 August 2009

Ian Bennett

Railways of North Somerset

15 May 2009

Mike Oakley

Stations North of Temple Meads

20 February 2009

Douglas Lindsay

The Ffestiniog Railway

2008

20 November 2008

Brian Margetson

Royal Portbury Docks

15 August 2008

Peter Davey

Around Weston by Tram

16 May 2008

Jerry Nichols

The Docks & Railways of Portishead

28 February 2008

Brian Margetson

Britain’s Disappearing Ferries

2007

22 November 2007

Mike Oakley

Railway Stations in the North Somerset Area