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Historical Line Societies

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Q2 2025

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April to June 2025

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Note this calendar is based on information provided as at 31 March 2025. As full details of meetings are not always published a full quarter in advance, up-dates to this calendar will occur periodically through the quarter.  

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- Brighton Circle

Tri-annual Journal ’The Brighton Circular’ (April 2025) now due out

 

- Caledonian Railway Association

Quarterly Journal ’True Lines’ (April 2025) now due out

 

- Cumbrian Railways Association

Quarterly Magazine ‘Cumbrian Railways Journal’ (February 2025) now out

 

- Friends of Stockton and Darlington Railway

Tri-annual Journal ’The Globe’ (April 2025) due out soon

 

Thursday 3 April

April Members Meeting

Venue: Darlington Cricket Club (Club House), Feethams South Terrace, Darlington

Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

 

Thursday 1 May

May Members Meeting

Venue: Darlington Cricket Club (Club House), Feethams South Terrace, Darlington

Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

 

Thursday 5 June

June Members Meeting

Venue: Darlington Cricket Club (Club House), Feethams South Terrace, Darlington

Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

 

- Glasgow and South Western Railway Association

Annual Journal, ‘Sou’ West Journal’ is now out

 

- Great Central Railway Society

(Venue for all Talks and Events: Farm Road Sports & Social Club, Farm Road, Sheffield)

(Starts 7.30pm)

 

Quarterly Journal ’Forward’ (March 2025) now out

 

Thursday 3 April

Talk: ‘Twenty Years of High Speed Railways in the UK'

Presented by David Hanger

 

Thursday 1 May

Talk: ‘The County Donegal Joint Railway'

Presented by Ken Grainger

 

Thursday 5 June

Talk: ‘My Life around the Railway'

Presented by John Law

 

- Great Eastern Railway Society

Quarterly Magazine ‘Great Eastern Journal’ (Spring 2025) now due out

Quarterly Newsletter ‘Great Eastern News’ (Spring 2025) now due out

 

- Great North of Scotland Railway Association

Quarterly Journal ’The Great North Review’ (February 2025) now out

Details of Spring Meeting to be released

 

- Great Northern Railway Society

Newsletter: ’Great Northern News’ (March/ April 2025) now due out

 

Saturday 20 April

‘Spring Meeting’

Venue: Danum Gallery, Library and Museum (DGLAM), Waterdale, Doncaster DN1 3BZ

Times: 10.30am to 4pm

 

- Great Western Society -Bristol Local Group

(Venue for all Bristol Talks: BAWA, 589 Southmead Road, Filton, Bristol, starts 7.45pm)

 

Society Quarterly Magazine ‘Great Western Echo’ (Spring 2025) now due out

 

Tuesday 8 April 

Talk: ‘Western Locomotive Association - Preservation Western Style’

Presented by Paul Finch

 

Tuesday 13 May              

Talk: ‘Level Crossings and Some Accidents Over the Years’

Presented by Ken Vine

 

- Great Western Society - Taunton Local Group

Venue for all meetings: Stoke St Mary Village Hall, near Taunton TA3 5BY, starts 7.30pm

 

Friday 18 April

Talk: ‘Travels with a Cornish Boy’

Presented by David Letcher

 

Friday 16 May

Talk: ‘Sights and Sounds of Southern and Western Steam’

Presented by Simon Foote

 

Friday 20 June

Talk: ‘More Exciting Pictures

Presented by Jack Boskett

 

- Highland Railway Society

Quarterly magazine ‘Highland Railway Journal’ (Spring 2025) now due out

 

- Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society

Quarterly journal ‘Magazine’ now out

 

- The LNER Society

Quarterly magazine ‘The LNER Society ‘Journal’ (Spring 2025) now due out

 

- London & North Western Railway Society

Quarterly magazine ‘LNWR Society Journal’ (March 2025) now out

 

Saturday 10 April:

Event: LNWRS Open Day

Venue: Kenilworth Study Centre, CV8 2FD.  Booking essential. 10am to 4pm

 

Saturday 10 May:

Event: LNWRS Open Day

Venue: Kenilworth Study Centre, CV8 2FD.  Booking essential. 10am to 4pm

 

Saturday 31 May:

Society Annual General Meeting

Via Zoom

Times: 10:30am – 4:30pm

 

Saturday 14 June:

LNWRS Open Day

Venue: Kenilworth Study Centre, CV8 2FD.  Booking essential. 10am to 4pm

 

- London Underground Railway Society

Monthly magazine ‘Underground News’ (April 2025) now due out

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Tuesday 6 May

Talk: ‘The Northern Line Extensions of the 1935-40 New Works Programme’

Presented by Brian Hardy

Venue: Gallery at Alan Baxter, 77 Cowcross Street, London, starts 6.30pm

 

M&GN Circle

Monthly Newsletter ‘The Bulletin’ (April 2025) now due out

 

Saturday 26 April

Annual General Meeting

Venue: Methodist Church Hall, London Road, King's Lynn.

Starts 2pm

 

Saturday 28 June

Summer Meeting

Venue: Barton House Railway, Wroxham

Starts 2pm

 

- Midland Railway Society

Tri-annual magazine ‘Midland Railway Society Journal’ now due out

 

Saturday 12 April

Annual General Meeting

Venue: Museum of Making, Silk Mill Lane, Derby, commence 11.45am.

 

Saturday 17 May

Supplementary meeting at Derby

Venue: Museum of Making in the Silk Mill, from 10:30 until 15:30

No external speaker…member leading a group photo show using the Study Centre’s extensive collection and pick a selection of interesting and unusual photographs to discuss

 

- Monmouthshire Railway Society

Bi-annual magazine ‘Journal’ (March 2025) now out

 

Thursday 17 April

Talk: ‘Colour Rail Evening’

Presented by Paul Chancellor   

Venue: Lysaght Institute, Orb Drive, Newport NP19 0RA, starts 7pm 

 

Thursday 15 May

Talk: ‘The Rise and Fall of Bristol Bath Road Diesel Depot’

Presented by Roy Kethro

Venue: Lysaght Institute, Orb Drive, Newport NP19 0RA, starts 7pm 

 

Thursday 12 June

Talk: ‘The Sirhowy Valley’

Presented by Ray Viney

Venue: Lysaght Institute, Orb Drive, Newport NP19 0RA, starts 7pm 

 

- North British Railway Study Group

Tri-annual magazine ‘Journal’ (March 2025) now out

 

- North Eastern Railway Association

Quarterly magazine ‘North Eastern Express’ (February 2025) now out

 

Saturday 12 April

Talk: York Meeting and AGM

Venue: The Bar Convent Living Heritage Centre, 17 Blossom Street, York YO24 1AQ. Starts 10.30am

‘History of the Tyne & Wear Metro System’ presented by Phil Kirkland

‘Remembering the 150th celebrations of the opening of the S&D’ presented by Roger Bastin

‘Engineering the Change from Waggonway to Main-Line Railway; 1780s to 1850s’ presented by Hugh Fenwick

 

Saturday 3 May

Walk: Middleton-in-Teesdale

Meet at 9:30am at the Barnard Castle Galgate bus stop for 09:50 Service 95/96 to Middleton-in-Teesdale. Catch bus to outside former station at Middleton-in-Teesdale. Walk to Barnard Castle (about 10 miles). Expected back at Barnard Castle by 16:30.

 

Saturday 7 June 

Talk: Getting to Wearhead: The S&DR and the NER in Weardale

Presented by John Addyman

Venue: Hopetown Darlington, McNay Street, Darlington, DL3 6SW

 

- North Staffordshire Railway Study Group

Bi-annual magazine ‘Journal’ now out

Quarterly Newsletter ‘Loop Lines’ (April 2025) now due out

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- Somerset and Dorset Railway Trust

Quarterly Magazine ‘Pines Express’ (Spring 2025) now due out

 

Saturday 20 April

Annual General Meeting:

Venue: Cossington Village Hall, Trivetts Way, Cossington, Somerset TA7 8JN

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South Eastern & Chatham Railway Society

Bi-annual Magazine ‘Invicta’ now out

 

- South Western Circle

Quarterly Magazine ‘South Western Circular’ (April 2025) now due out

 

Saturday 5 May

Talk: ‘Waterloo B Box to Clapham Junction’

Presented by Stuart Isbister

Venue: Usual Salisbury venue, 2pm

                             

- Southern Railways Group

Quarterly magazine ‘Southern Notebook’ now due out

 

- Welsh Railways Research Circle

Bi-annual magazine ‘Welsh Railways Archive’ (April 2025) due out soon

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Saturday 7th June Annual General Meeting

Venue: Rhiwderin Community Centre, Rhiwderin, Newport NP10 8RL.

Time: 10:30 - 16:00

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