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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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