Programme 2019-2021

          
All meetings held in the Methodist Church Stoke Road and begin at 7.30.

2019

23rd January

Winter Series (in Main Hall)
Memories of Blea Moor and Ribblehead by
those Living Lineside

The Amazing London Eye 

How it was built.

30th January

Winter Series (in Fellowship Room)

The Miners of Glendalough 

Forncett Industrial Steam Museum

6th February

Winter Series (in Fellowship Room) 

 Old Gosport by Bob Harrop

12th February 
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE

Winter Series (in Fellowship Room)
London in Festival Year 1951
A collection of four festival films

15th February 

Alan Wallbank presents
The Hayling Line post closure 

The Southsea Miniature Railway

Please note the date of this meeting will be Wednesday the 20th February

The Great Liners

The story of the great ocean liners. 

Underground Britain. 

Beneath Edinburgh,

Brighton 

and Liverpool 

Plus a look at Smuggling

  

15th March

The Selsey Tramway
by Bill Gage

19th April

Society AGM followed 
by the Campbeltown & Machrihanish 
Light Railway by David Lusby

17th May
The Industrial Railways of Hampshire 
by Rob Pearman

21st June
The Life of a British Transport Policeman

19th July
Steam in the Hills
A talk based around locomotives working hard on some of the stiffest climbs on the rail network. A range of locomotives are featured from all four main regions.

by 
Simon Foote

16th August

Reflections on the Cromford and High Peak Railway 
by Peter Keat

20th September

The Railway Environment in the 
North of England and Scotland
by Steve Bigley

18th October

Waterloo to Weymouth, Britain's last steam main line from London.

By Mike Pym

15th November

Photographic Competition

The Minor Railways of Gosport

by Peter Keat

20th December

Railway Films and Members Buffet Suggested donation £2.00

2020

8th January 2020

Winter Series (in Fellowship Room) 

Truckfest 2007

The Blitz Years

Wartime Britain

15th January 2020

Winter Series (in Fellowship Room)

Getting Steam Up with Fred Dibnah 1938-2004

17th January 

The Bluebell Railway
by Ian Wright

22nd January

Winter Series (in Fellowship Room) 

Before Beeching: Life before the 
reshaping of British Rail

29th January

Winter Series (in Fellowship Room) 

 Old Gosport by Bob Harrop

5th February

Winter Series (in Fellowship Room) 

The Moriston Project

Cruachan

12th February

Winter Series (in Fellowship Room)

Now it can be told 
French Resistance in WW2

Tyne Shipyards and Docks at War

21st February

Three Feet on Three Legs

The Railways of the Isle of Man

by Colin Brading

20th March

European Railtours

by Mike Hedderly

17th April

AGM and An Irish Railway Miscellany 

15th May

Flying Scotsman to Tornado

by Alan Hayward

11th June

My Life in Signalling Part 2

by Ted Cook

17th July

Women on the Railway

The Southern Railway Orphanage

by Dr. Becky Peacock

21st August

            The Rhaetian Railway of Switzerland          by Ted Vaughan

18th September

Southern Electric (to be confirmed)

16th October

A Look at New Zealand Railways.

by Peter Keat

20th November

Photographic Competition

The Grand Finale of British Steam

20th December

Railway Films and Members Buffet 

Suggested donation £2.00

2021

13th January 2021

Winter Series (in Fellowship Room) 

Transport in and around Portsmouth

15th January

Cumbria's Lost Railways

Peter Keat

20th January

Winter Series (in Fellowship Room)

London in the 1950s Pt 1

Manx Mines and Minerals

27th January 

Winter Series (in Fellowship Room)

Old Gosport

Bob Harrop

3rd February

Winter Series (in Fellowship Room)

The West Highland Railway

10th February

Winter Series (in Fellowship Room)

Ferry Pilot

The work of the Air Transport Auxillary

17th February

Winter Series (in Fellowship Room)

Addressing the Nation

Post Office films from 1930s covering, mining, fishing, Ceylon, Air Post and others

19th February

Society Meeting TBA

19th March

Society Meeting TBA

16th April 

Society AGM followed by 

Eastleigh and the Southern