Chairman: Bill Davies
Secretary: Geoff Biggs Click to E-mail
In normal circumstances, 13 meetings are held each year at 19:30 - 22:00 in
St John's Church Hall, St John’s Street, Bedford, MK42 0DL (unless otherwise stated)
Admission £1.00 Members, £2.00 Non-members (includes free tea or coffee). Refreshments are served at half-time
You can buy new and second-hand books and other items at all indoor meetings.
We have now resumed physical meetings, at St John's Church Hall
Meetings Programme 2022
| 7th June |
Steam around Leeds and Bradford, and the North East, - 1966 & 1967
A digital presentation by Michael Smyth using photographs of his own taking covering the period leading up to the demise of steam. (Note change of speaker and subject)
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| 5th July |
Crossrail
Christian Wolmar has taken a close interest in this high profile construction project which has hit the headlines for the wrong reasons. He shares his distinctly personal views with us
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| August |
The Chairman’s Day out (Date and destination to be arranged)
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| 6th September |
Edge Hill and its Complex Railways
George Howe describes how the LNWR tackled the huge growth of traffic to and from Liverpool and its expanding but congested docks. He examines the complex railway system in the Edge Hill area and Lime Street
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| 4th October |
North Staffordshire Railway part 3
Brian Sullivan covers the line from Norton Bridge to Stoke, Stoke to Keele and the line from Alsager to Keele and then continues to Market Drayton
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| 18th October |
AGM and Guest Speaker
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| 1st November |
With Lance King in Ireland – part 2
Leslie McAllister offers a first selection of colour photographs taken by the late Lance King in the Republic of Ireland in the last years of steam. Lance was a skilled photographer and left a fine record of steam in the Dublin area and on the fondly remembered branches such as Kenmare, Loughrea, Ballaghadereen, Edenderry, Tullow, Clara and Youghal, Steam and diesel in daily service on the Cork Bandon and South Coast Railway feature, as does the memorable railtour with the last “Bandon tank”. The early days of silver and “black and tan” liveried diesels can be glimpsed along the way. A time of great change
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| 6th December |
Stratford & Midland Jnc Rly. (The Railways of Northampton part 5)
Barry Taylor continues the exploration of our neighbouring county
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| 20th December |
Christmas Meeting
Film Night with Frank Banfield and a Fish & Chip Supper
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