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Historical Line Societies
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Q1 2026
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January to March 2026​​​​
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Note this calendar is based on information provided as at 30 December 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.
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- Brighton Circle
Tri-annual Journal ’The Brighton Circular’ (Winter 2025) now due out
- Caledonian Railway Association
Quarterly Journal ’True Lines’ (January 2026) now due out
Saturday 7 February
Visit to Springburn Works
Saturday 14 March
Annual General Meeting 2026
Venue: Crown and Mitre Hotel, Carlisle
Meeting may also be available online in webinar format
- Cumbrian Railways Association
Quarterly Magazine ‘Cumbrian Railways Journal’ (Winter 2025) now out
Saturday 21 March
Spring Meeting and AGM
Venue: Carus Green Golf Club, Burneside Road, Kendal, LA9 6EB.
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- Friends of Stockton and Darlington Railway
Tri-annual Journal ’The Globe’ (December 2025) now out
- Glasgow and South Western Railway Association
Annual Journal, ‘Sou’ West Journal’ is now out
Saturday 17 January
Talk: First Pullman to first terminus 150 years of St Enoch station
Presented by Andrew Swan
Venue: The Panel Room, Paisley Abbey
Starts 2pm
Saturday 8 February
Cine films
Presented by David Coddington
Venue: The Panel Room, Paisley Abbey
Starts 2pm
Saturday 7 March
AGM followed by talk ’The Hetton Lyons Railway’
Presented by Armour Hamilton
Venue: The Panel Room, Paisley Abbey
Starts 2pm
Annual Journal, ‘Sou’ West Journal’ is now out
Talk season finished - resumes in Autumn
- 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 2025) now out
Thursday 8 January
Talk: ‘Virginia Wanderings'
Presented by Bob Gellatly
Thursday 5 February
Talk: ‘The Settle-Carlisle Line in the 1980s'
Presented by Keith Marshall
Thursday 5 March
Talk: ‘Photos from the Brian Morrison Collection taken in the 1950s'
Presented by Richard Tuplin
- Great Eastern Railway Society
Quarterly Magazine ‘Great Eastern Journal’ (Winter 2025) now out
Quarterly Newsletter ‘Great Eastern News’ (Winter 2025) now out
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- Great North of Scotland Railway Association
Quarterly Journal ’The Great North Review’ (November 2025) now out
- Great Northern Railway Society
Newsletter: ’Great Northern News’ (January/ February 2026) now due out
- Great Western Society -Bristol Local Group
[Note: Society Quarterly Magazine ‘Great Western Echo’ (Winter 2025) now out]
(Venue for all Bristol Talks: BAWA, 589 Southmead Road, Filton, Bristol, starts 7.45pm)
Tuesday 13 January
Talk: ‘Bristol Temple Meads Through the Ages’
Presented by Gerry Nichols
Tuesday 10 February
AGM and Talk: The Andrew Hook Memorial Meeting, incorporating the Group Annual Meeting
Presented by: Richard Antliff
Tuesday 10 March
Talk: ‘Last Steam Around Gloucester’
Presented by Chris Baldwin
- Great Western Society - Taunton Local Group
Venue for all meetings: Stoke St Mary Village Hall, near Taunton TA3 5BY, starts 7.30pm
Meetings to be announced
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- Highland Railway Society
Quarterly magazine ‘Highland Railway Journal’ ([Winter] 2025) now out
- Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society
Quarterly journal ‘Magazine’ now out
Bi-annual LYR Focus (No.90) due out February 2026
Details of Spring Meeting to be released shortly
- The LNER Society
Quarterly magazine ‘The LNER Society Journal’ (Winter 2025) now out
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- London & North Western Railway Society
Quarterly magazine ‘LNWR Society Journal’ (December 2025) now out
The Society is in the process of moving from Kenilworth to its new Study Centre premises at 35 Vine Street, Coventry, expected to be completed in the early part of the New Year. Details of meetings will be released once move is complete.
- London Underground Railway Society
Monthly magazine ‘Underground News’ (January 2026) now due out
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Tuesday 6 January
Talk: ‘LTM Heritage Train Operations - Is there any future in this?’
Presented by Graham Neil
Venue: Gallery at Alan Baxter, 77 Cowcross Street, London, starts 6.30pm
Tuesday 3 March
Talk: ‘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’ (January 2026) now out
- Midland Railway Society
Tri-annual magazine ‘Midland Railway Society Journal’ now due out
- Monmouthshire Railway Society
Bi-annual magazine ‘Journal’ (September 2025) now out
Thursday 15 January
Talk: The Festiniog Railway Pt 1 – Up To Closure (1946)
Presented by
Venue: Lysaght Institute, Orb Drive, Newport NP19 0RA, starts 7pm
Thursday 12 February
Presentation: MRS Video Films
Venue: Lysaght Institute, Orb Drive, Newport NP19 0RA, starts 7pm
Thursday 12 March
Talk: ‘1962 Was Only Yesterday’
Presented by David Mathew
Venue: Lysaght Institute, Orb Drive, Newport NP19 0RA, starts 7pm
- North British Railway Study Group
Tri-annual magazine ‘Journal’ (November 2025) now out
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- North Eastern Railway Association
Quarterly magazine ‘North Eastern Express’ (November 2025) now out
Thursday 15 January
Talk: ‘John and Benjamin Green’
Presented by Chris Brown
By Zoom, starts 7pm
Thursday 12 February
Talk: ‘Virtual Walk around the Haggerleases Branch’
Presented by Keith Richardson
By Zoom, starts 7pm
Saturday 19 March
Talk: ‘Railways Around Backworth’
Presented by Ed Orwin
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- North Staffordshire Railway Study Group
Bi-annual magazine ‘Journal’ now out
Quarterly Newsletter ‘Loop Lines’ (January 2026) now out
​- Somerset and Dorset Railway Trust
Quarterly Magazine ‘Pines Express’ (Winter 2026) now out
South Eastern & Chatham Railway Society
Bi-annual Magazine ‘Invicta’ now out
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Details of the Spring AGM to be released shortly
- South Western Circle
Quarterly Magazine ‘South Western Circular’ (January 2026) now due out
Saturday 17 January
AGM, followed by a talk on 'The railway comes to Buriton, the development of the Portsmouth Direct line.'
Presented by Doug Jones and Mike Attrill
Venue: Usual West Byfleet venue, 2pm
Saturday 7 March
Talk: ‘Frank Foote Images’
Presented by Mike King
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 6 January
Event: Archiving Day at Rhiwderin Community Centre, Rhiwderin, Newport NP10 8RL
Tuesday 10 February
Archiving Day at Rhiwderin Community Centre, Rhiwderin, Newport NP10 8RL
Tuesday 17 March
Archiving Day at Rhiwderin Community Centre, Rhiwderin, Newport NP10 8RL
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