2011 Meetings Programme

The society meets at the Woodborough Social Club, Smithy Lane, Woodborough, near Pewsey on the second Tuesday of each month at 7:45pm.

For further details please telephone Max Wilkinson on 01672 851478.

New members are always welcome, so please feel free to come along and join in!


Date Presentation
11th Jan AGM
Following the meeting Messrs Wilcocks and Wilkinson will present a brief look at our very own local Woodborough Station
8th Feb The Irish Mail
by Max Wilkinson
Following the route of the oldest named train in the world, from Euston in London to Holyhead on Anglesey
8th Mar The Kent Coast
by Stuart Isbister
A journey around the Kent coast from London to Ramsgate and back again in the glorious days of steam haulage
12th April All Colours of the Rainbow
by Dave Walker
David looks back at diesel locomotive development over the last 55 years since the announcement of the Modernisation Plan
10th May 30 Years of TGV
by Michael Bunn
A history of the iconic French Train à Grande Vitesse
14th Jun Steam Photographic Charters
by Peter Elliott
Peter talks on the hiring of trains in order to photograph them "as they were"
12th Jul Oxford's Other Railway
by Laurence Waters
The LNWR and the LMS in and around the Oxford area from 1851 to 1968
9th Aug Slides From the Steam Era
by Chris Youett & David Walker
A new series of presentations
13th Sep North London Line
by David Butcher
David talks about his experiences as the first ever Railtrack Contract Manager to be in charge of the entire NLL network under privatisation
11th Oct A Year of Railway Photography
by Martin Wilcocks
The detailed twelve-month diary of a railway photographer
8th Nov Bulleid Pacific/Merchant Navy Class Locomotives
by John Fry
John presents the history and development of these magnificent machines
13th Dec East African Railways
by Robert de Berry
Robert gives us an insight into the steam locomotive operations on the EAR

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