Historical Line Societies

Q4 2025

October to December 2025

Note this calendar is based on information provided as at 28 September 2025. As full details of meetings are not always published a full quarter in advance, up-dates to this calendar will occur periodically. Note Societies often change their events, often on little notice.

- Brighton Circle

Tri-annual Journal ’The Brighton Circular’ (Summer 2025) is now out

- Caledonian Railway Association

Quarterly Journal ’True Lines’ (October 2025) is due out soon

Saturday 5 October

Forum of Scottish Line Societies - Fifth Scottish Railway History Conference

Venue: A K Bell Library, Perth

- Cumbrian Railways Association

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

- Friends of Stockton and Darlington Railway

Tri-annual Journal ’The Globe’ (August 2025) is now out

Member meetings usually held on the first Thursday of the month, save January and August and the AGM in November is usually a Saturday

- Glasgow and South Western Railway Association

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

Saturday 18 October

‘A different viewpoint’

Presented by G Todd

Venue: The Panel Room, Paisley Abbey

Saturday 8 November

‘Traction engines in Scotland’

Presented by D Henderson

Venue: The Panel Room, Paisley Abbey

- Great Central Railway Society

Quarterly Journal ’Forward’ (September 2025) is now out

Saturday 25 October

'The Loughborough Special'

Venue: Fearon Hall, Rectory Road, Loughborough LE11 1PL]

10:30 - Doors open with sales and displays.

11:00 - 'Building a new GCR Class 2 4-4-0 Locomotive' by Andrew Horrocks-Taylor of the GCR 567 Locomotive Group.

12:30 - Following time for lunch, attendees are invited to visit the heritage GCR at Loughborough where visits to the shed and signal box have been arranged. Meet at Loughborough Central station at 14:00.

GCRS Sheffield Branch

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

(Starts 7.30pm)

Thursday 2 October:

Talk: ‘Midland Wanderings’

Presented by Mike Eggenton

Thursday 6 November:

Talk: ‘25 Years Around Doncaster'

Presented by Geoff Griffiths.

Thursday 4 December:

Quiz and Review of the Year

- Great Eastern Railway Society

Quarterly Magazine ‘Great Eastern Journal’ (Autumn 2025) is now out

Quarterly Newsletter ‘Great Eastern News’ (Autumn 2025) is now out

Zoom meetings for members, held once or twice per month

- Great North of Scotland Railway Association

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

- Great Northern Railway Society

Newsletter: ’Great Northern News’ (September/ October 2025) is now out

- Great Western Society

Society Quarterly Magazine ‘Great Western Echo’ (Autumn 2025) is now out

Great Western Society -Bristol Local Group

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

Tuesday 14 October

Talk: ‘The Railways of Sharpness’

Presented by Mike Smith

Tuesday 11 November

Talk: ‘The World's Oldest Independent Railway Part 1: Slate (Ffestiniog Railway)’

Presented by Tim Maynard

Tuesday 9 December

Talk: ‘Cirencester Community Rail Project'

Presented by Richard Gunner

- Great Western Society - Taunton Local Group

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

Not yet advertised

Great Western Study Group

- Highland Railway Society

Quarterly magazine ‘Highland Railway Journal’ (Autumn 2025) is now out

- Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society

Quarterly journal ‘Magazine’ (Autumn 2025) is now out

Saturday 11 October

AGM and Members’ Day

Venue: Oxenhope Community Centre

- The LNER Society

Quarterly magazine ‘The LNER Society ‘Journal’ (Autumn 2025) is now out

- London & North Western Railway Society

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

Note that the Society is moving from the Kenilworth Study Centre - Society open days intended to resume following opening of new premises

- London Underground Railway Society

Monthly magazine ‘Underground News’ (October 2025) is now out

Tuesday 4 November

‘A Whistle-stop Architectural History of London Underground stations’

Presented by Edmund Bird, TfL’s Heritage Manager

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

M&GN Circle

Monthly Newsletter ‘The Bulletin’ (September 2025) is now out

- Midland Railway Society

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

- Monmouthshire Railway Society

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

Thursday 16 October

Rev. Cannon B. Arman ‘A Broad Gauge Journey, Swindon to South Wales’

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

Thursday 13 November

Ian Boskett ‘A Trip Down Memory Lane 60s 70s 80s UK Railways’

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

Thursday 4 December

Peter Brabham ‘The end of Steam in N. England and Scotland (Wiltshire & Chaplin collection)’

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

- North British Railway Study Group

Tri-annual magazine ‘Journal’ (October 2025) due out soon

North Eastern Railway Association

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

Saturday 11 October

York Meeting

Venue: The Bar Convent Living Heritage Centre, York

- North Staffordshire Railway Study Group

Bi-annual magazine ‘Journal’ is now out

Quarterly Newsletter ‘Loop Lines’ (October 2025) is due out soon

- Somerset and Dorset Railway Trust

Quarterly Magazine ‘Pines Express’ (Autumn 2025) is now out

South Eastern & Chatham Railway Society

Bi-annual Magazine ‘Invicta’ is now out

- South Western Circle

Quarterly Magazine ‘South Western Circular’ (October 2025) is due out soon

Saturday 18 October

‘LSWR Signalling’

Presented by Graham Bowring

Venue: Usual West Byfleet venue, 2pm

- Southern Railways Group

Quarterly newsletter ‘Southern Notebook’ (Autumn 2025) is now out

- Welsh Railways Research Circle

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

Tuesday 21 October

Archiving Day at Rhiwderin Community Centre, Rhiwderin, Newport NP10 8RL

Tuesday 25 November

Archiving Day at Rhiwderin Community Centre, Rhiwderin, Newport NP10 8RL