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Historical Line Societies
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Q1 2025
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January to March 2025
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Note this calendar is based on information provided as at 1 January 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’ (Winter 2024) now out
Caledonian Railway Association
Quarterly Journal ’True Lines’ (January 2025) now due out
Saturday 1 February
‘A different viewpoint’
Presented by Graham Todd
Venue: Renfield St Stephens Church, 260 Bath Street, Glasgow
Hybrid Meeting: Starts 2pm
Saturday 15 March
Annual General Meeting 2025
Venue: Crown and Mitre Hotel, Carlisle
The meeting will also be available online in webinar format
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- Cumbrian Railways Association
Quarterly Magazine ‘Cumbrian Railways Journal’ (Winter 2024) now out
Details of Spring Meeting and AGM to be advertised
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- Friends of Stockton and Darlington Railway
Tri-annual Journal ’The Globe’ (December 2025) now out
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Thursday 9 January
January Members Meeting
Venue: The Railway Tavern, Darlington High Northgate, Darlington
Time: Starts 7pm
Thursday 6 February
February Members Meeting
Venue: Darlington Cricket Club (Club House), Feethams South Terrace, Darlington
Time: Starts 7pm
Thursday 6 March
March Members Meeting
Venue: Darlington Cricket Club (Club House), Feethams South Terrace, Darlington
Time: Starts 7pm
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- Glasgow and South Western Railway Association
Saturday 18 January
Talk: ‘Indian Railways - Past and Present’
Presented by David Coddington
Venue: The Panel Room, Paisley Abbey
Starts 2pm
Saturday 8 February
Talk: ‘Dumfries’
Presented by Donald Henderson and Andrew Swan
Venue: The Panel Room, Paisley Abbey
Starts 2pm
Saturday 8 March
AGM followed by talk ’And In The Beginning
Presented by Andrew Swan
Venue: The Panel Room, Paisley Abbey
Starts 2pm
- Great Central Railway Society
(Venue for all Talks and Events: Farm Road Sports & Social Club, Farm Road, Sheffield)
(Starts 7.30pm)
Quarterly Journal ’Forward’ (December 2024) now out
Thursday 2 January
Talk: ‘Through Kirton Tunnel - Part Two'
Presented by Stephen Gay
Thursday 6 February
Talk: ‘Along the GC from Sheffield to Gainsborough'
Presented by Chris Booth
Thursday 6 March
Talk: ‘The Schools - Maunsell's Masterpiece'
Presented by Bob Gellatly
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- Great Eastern Railway Society
Quarterly Magazine ‘Great Eastern Journal’ (Winter 2024) now out
Quarterly Newsletter ‘Great Eastern News’ (Winter 2024) now out
Annual General Meeting 2025: Details to be released
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- Great North of Scotland Railway Association
Quarterly Journal ’The Great North Review’ (November 2024) now out
Details of Spring Meeting to be released shortly
- Great Northern Railway Society
Newsletter: ’Great Northern News’ (January/ February 2025) now due out
Details of Spring Meeting to be released shortly
- Great Western Society - Bristol Local Group
[Note: Society Quarterly Magazine ‘Great Western Echo’ (Winter 2024) now out]
(Venue for all Bristol Talks: BAWA, 589 Southmead Road, Filton, Bristol, starts 7.45pm)
Tuesday 14 January
Talk: ‘Railway Roundabout - A Pastiche of Railway History – Part 2’
Presented by Brian Armen
Tuesday 11 February
AGM and Talk: The Andrew Hook Memorial Meeting, incorporating the Group Annual Meeting
Presented by: Alan Price
Tuesday 11 March
Talk: ‘Tunnel Vision - The Story of the Metropolitan Railway’
Presented by Colin Brading
- Great Western Society - Taunton Local Group
Venue for all meetings: Stoke St Mary Village Hall, near Taunton TA3 5BY, starts 7.30pm
Friday 17 January
Talk: ‘Steam Recreations’
Presented by: Don Bishop
Friday 21 February
AGM: Group Annual Meeting and Didcot Update
Friday 21 March
Talk: Where or What is it?
Presented by: Ian Bennett
- Highland Railway Society
Quarterly magazine ‘Highland Railway Journal’ ([Winter] 2024) now out
- Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society
Quarterly journal ‘Magazine’ now out
Bi-annual LYR Focus (No.88) due out February
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Details of Spring Meeting to be released shortly
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- The LNER Society
Quarterly magazine ‘The LNER Society Journal’ (Winter 2024) now out
- London & North Western Railway Society
Quarterly magazine ‘LNWR Society Journal’ (December 2024) now out
Saturday 11 January:
Event: LNWRS Open Day
Venue: Kenilworth Study Centre, CV8 2FD. Booking essential. 10am to 4pm
Saturday 8 February:
Event: LNWRS Open Day
Venue: Kenilworth Study Centre, CV8 2FD. Booking essential. 10am to 4pm
Saturday 8 March:
LNWRS Open Day
Venue: Kenilworth Study Centre, CV8 2FD. Booking essential. 10am to 4pm
Saturday 22 March:
LNWR Society Modeller Day
Venue: The Leamington & Warwick Model Railway Society, New House Farm, Southam, Leamington
- London Underground Railway Society
Monthly magazine ‘Underground News’ (January 2025) now out
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Tuesday 7 January
Talk: ‘The Tubemapper Project – The Story Continues’
Presented by Luke Agbaimoni
Venue: Gallery at Alan Baxter, 77 Cowcross Street, London, starts 6.30pm
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Tuesday 4 March
Talk: ‘At London’s Service’ (an illustrated review of London Underground operations in 2023 and 2024)
Presented by Kim Rennie.
Venue: Gallery at Alan Baxter, 77 Cowcross Street, London, starts 6.30pm
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M&GN Circle
Monthly Newsletter ‘The Bulletin’ (January 2025) now out
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- Midland Railway Society
Tri-annual magazine ‘Midland Railway Society Journal’ now due out
- Monmouthshire Railway Society
Bi-annual magazine ‘Journal’ (September 2024) now out
Thursday 16 January
Talk: Memories of Steam in Devon and Cornwall
Presented by G. Nichols
Venue: Lysaght Institute, Orb Drive, Newport NP19 0RA, starts 7pm
Thursday 13 February
Presentation: MRS Video Films
Venue: Lysaght Institute, Orb Drive, Newport NP19 0RA, starts 7pm
Thursday 13 March
Talk: ‘Brecon & Merthyr Railway Pt1 (Brecon - Pontsticill)’
Presented by Ken Mumford
Venue: Lysaght Institute, Orb Drive, Newport NP19 0RA, starts 7pm
​- North British Railway Study Group
Tri-annual magazine ‘Journal’ (November 2024) now out
- North Eastern Railway Association
Quarterly magazine ‘North Eastern Express’ (November 2024) now out
Thursday 16 January
Talk: ‘The Chaldron, Development, Proliferation and Retrenchment, 1825 – 1913’
Presented by David Williamson
By Zoom, starts 7pm
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Thursday 27 February
Talk: ‘Robert Stephenson - Promoting His Legacy’
Presented by Philip Benham
By Zoom, starts 7pm
Saturday 8 March
Talk: ‘Repression to Recognition: Walter Hudson and the growth of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants from 1867 to 1897’
Presented by Ian Mitchell
Venue: Hopetown Darlington, McNay Street, Darlington, DL3 6SW
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Saturday 15 March
Talk: Details to be announced
Venue: Hull
​- North Staffordshire Railway Study Group
Bi-annual magazine ‘Journal’ now out
Quarterly Newsletter ‘Loop Lines’ (January 2025) now out
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Saturday 15 February
Event: AGM
Venue: Brampton Museum, Newcastle under Lyme (also via Zoom)
2pm to 4pm
- Somerset and Dorset Railway Trust
Quarterly Magazine ‘Pines Express’ (Winter 2025) now out
South Eastern & Chatham Railway Society
Bi-annual Magazine ‘Invicta’ now out
Details of the Spring AGM to be released shortly
- South Western Circle
Quarterly Magazine ‘South Western Circular’ (January 2025) now due out
Saturday 18 January
AGM, followed by a talk from Anna Jipps (Company Secretary of the Railway Heritage Trust) and ‘1954 photographs taken by Alan Cooper’ by Peter D Swift
Venue: Usual West Byfleet venue, 2pm
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Saturday 8 March
Talk: ‘More Images from the Bluebell Archive’
Presented by Roger merry-Price
Venue: Usual Fareham venue, 2pm
- Southern Railways Group
Quarterly newsletter ‘Southern Notebook’ now due out
- Welsh Railways Research Circle
Bi-annual magazine ‘Welsh Railways Archive’ (October 2025) now out
Tuesday 7 January
Event: Archiving Day at Rhiwderin Community Centre, Rhiwderin, Newport NP10 8RL
Tuesday 11 February
Archiving Day at Rhiwderin Community Centre, Rhiwderin, Newport NP10 8RL
Saturday 15 February
Talk: ‘Asking for trouble’? The Railway Work, Life & Death project and railway employee accidents in Wales before 1939’
Presented by Dr Mike Esbester
Venue: The Clayton Hotel, Cardiff CF10 1GD (next to Cardiff Central station)
Time: 2pm to 5pm
Tuesday 18 March
Archiving Day at Rhiwderin Community Centre, Rhiwderin, Newport NP10 8RL
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