CENTRAL LONDON BRANCH
Meetings 19.00 - 21.30 at
Model Railway Club, Keen House, Calshot Street, London.
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Central London Branch Meetings Programme
January 20th 2012 Just in front of the good Doctor
- Blake Paterson Our ever-popular look back at scenes from the Beeching
era.
February 17th Bulleid's other locomotives. - Colin
Boocock This follows on from the talk on the Pacifics given in 2011
and deals with the other locomotives such as the Leader class designed
by the one-time Southern Railway CME.
March 16th Railways in West Europe - Yesterday & To-day -
Brian Stephenson. Archive photos mainly of steam in Belgium,
France and Holland in pre-war days and, by the speaker, more recent
scenes in Germany and Switzerland.
April 20th The last decade of BR Steam John Cramp Slides
from 50 years -and probably a bit more
May 18th The West Somerset Railway = Keith Smith
This is one of the country's premier heritage railways and we welcome
this addition to our programme for the first time at CLB.
June 15th Scandinavia = Jeremy Harrison Scenes from
northern Europe from a prolific photographer and well-known Club
stalwart.
July 20th The Epping Ongar Railway - Simon Hanney.
This is a new heritage railway, not yet open to the public, but
essentially in London.
August 17th Members Slides. - Omnes The traditional
summer meeting where everyone can show what good photographers they
are. Transparencies and digital images equally welcome.
September 21st Forty Years of Forward. - Tony Sparks
and Tom Ingall The history, progress and future plans for the Great
Central Railway at Loughborough
October 19th AGM followed by Members Slides at
20.20. Transparencies and digital offerings both welcome. Omnes
November 16th Steam in Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan - Peter
Lemmey Using his own slides and some from the late Basil Roberts
collection, Peter shows scenes from the subcontinent and its near
neighbour.
December 21st Title and speaker to be announced.
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Saturday September 24th 2011.
London's Lost Railways,
a guided walk organised by Don Kennedy.
The Don Kennedy guided walk of 24th September was a great success
and took place in perfect walking weather.
All the remaining possible sites of The Ladykillers film were visited
though almost all around Kings Cross station have now completely
disappeared.
A full report illustrated with pictures will appear here soon.
The end of the walk was more a Found Railways of London session
with a visit to the newly upgraded lines near Surrey Quays now part
of the new East London line services.
In December 2012 trains are expected to return to the Surrey Quays
to Old Kent Road Junction alignment which last saw services nearly
100 years ago, as part of the new south London Overground line service
to Clapham Junction.
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London's Lost Railways.
The guided walk on September 26th 2009, led by Don Kennedy,
took place in excellent weather and was an enjoyable afternoon's
exploration of London's Lost Railways in West London. A full report
with pictures from the event can be seen on the Outdoor pages.
The 2010 guided walk took place on Saturday 25th September, again
in glorious weather. Participants explored the Mill Hill East to
Edgware route, of which much remains almost intact. The walk was
greatly enhanced by our Vice President John Cramp who knew the line
well in its working days. A report of the 2011 walk to the locations
of The Ladykillers film will appear in the Outdoor section in the
near future.
Don's walks are planned with meticulous attention to detail and
are not only a healthy but simply the best way of exploring London's
Lost Railways. For further information on Don's other guided walks
please contact him directly at donkennedy@fs2.com
mentioning LCGB.
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Dawlish Trainwatch
The 2010 Dawlish Trainwatch, the latter term now referred to as UK Study
Tour, was a great success but was the last one for the time being. A
full report appeared in the Bulletin which included pictures taken on
our excellent visit to Exeter panel signal box.
Further UK study tours in 2012 will be announced in due course.
The pictures of 6024 King Edward I were taken on the 2008 visit but
are only a glimpse of how much there is to be seen.
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Click on any of these photographs taken on the 2008 Dawlish Visit
to see an enlarged photograph
6024 passing Dawlish en route to Kingswear - Photo M Wood
6024 on the return approaching Dawlish Warren about 12 minutes
early - Photo M Wood
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