Peter's New Book is now Available

Front Cover artwork by Peter Westcott

Programme for 2019-2021

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

15th November

Photographic Competition

 Gosports' Minor Railways

by Peter Keat

7th December
Railway Society Annual Christmas Dinner, Raffle and Quiz
19.15 for 19.30 at 
The Bun Penny 
Lee on the Solent

Two Courses   £18.75
Three Courses £23.50


20th December
Last meeting in the Stoke Road Methodist Church

Railway Films and mince pies

2020

From today all meetings to be held in the Christ Church Hall, Stoke Road, behind the church and will start at 7.30pm and end at 9.40pm.

Tuesday 7th January 2020

Winter Series 1 

A Look at Clayton Tunnel

The Blitz Years  Wartime Britain

Tuesday 14th January 2020

Winter Series 2 

The Newsreel Story of Imperial Airways

17th January 

The Bluebell Railway
by Ian Wright

Tuesday 21st January

Winter Series 3 
Before Beeching: Life before the 
reshaping of British Rail

Tuesday 28th January

Winter Series 4 

 Old Gosport by Bob Harrop

Tuesday 4th February

Winter Series 5 

The Moriston Project Cruachan

Tuesday 11thFebruary

Winter Series 6 
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 Devon Railways by Mike Pym

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
Liam Kenchenten

21st August

            The Rhaetian Railway of Switzerland          by Ted Vaughan

18th September
GWR Motor Buses, Steam Railmotors, Push-Pull trains. Diesel Railcars and Halts.

Brian Jackson

16th October
Chinese Railways
by John Barrowdale

20th November

Photographic Competition

The Grand Finale of British Steam

20th December

Railway Films and Members Buffet 

Suggested donation £2.50

2021

Tuesday 12th January

Winter Series 1 

Transport in and around Portsmouth

15th January

Porsmouth Tramways

Paul Knight

Tuesday 19th January

Winter Series 2 

London in the 1950s Pt 1

Manx Mines and Minerals

Tuesday 26th January

Winter Series 3 

Old Gosport

Bob Harrop

Tuesday 2nd February

Winter Series 4 

The West Highland Railway

The Oldest Working Electric Railway in the World. The Volks Railway.

Tuesday 9th February

Winter Series 5 

Ferry Pilot

The work of the Air Transport Auxiliary

Tuesday 16th February

Winter Series 6 

Addressing the Nation

Post Office films from 1930s covering, 

mining, fishing, Ceylon, Air Post and others

19th February

 The Railways of Hungary

Paul Gosling

19th March

Southern Carriages

Mike King

16th April 

Society AGM followed by 

Eastleigh and the Southern

21st May 

The Somerset and Dorset- An English Cross Country Railway
Jim Boudreau

18th June
Chalk and Cheese

The story of the Abbotsbury branch and Swanage branches, both opened in 1885, one a speculative failure the other a success

Brian Jackson



16th July

Railways through the Seasons
 by Simon Foote 

20th August

The Brookwood Necropolis Railway
John Clarke

17th September
The Million Pound Railway




15th October

The History and Running of the Exbury Gardens Railway

Ian Wilson

19th November
Photographic Competition


A Look at the GRS Archives

19th December

Railway Films and Members Buffet 

Suggested donation £2.50

2022

Tuesday 11th January

Winter Series 1 

Early Colour film of London

Isle of Wight Transport in 1960's

Steamed up with Fred Dibnah

Tuesday 18th January

Winter Series 2 

Old Gosport

Bob Harrop

21st January
A Look at New Zealand Railways.

by Peter Keat

Tuesday 25th January

Winter Series 3 

HMY Britannia

Motor shows of the 1950's

Tuesday 1st February

Winter Series 4 

The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania

The Sea Harvesters
Scottish Fishermen 1930 -1960

Tuesday 8th February

Winter Series 5  
Bomber Command 1939 -1945

Tuesday 15th February

Winter Series 6  

The Story of The London Eye

Somerset and Dorset Railway Reborn

18th February

Cumbria's Lost Railways

Peter Keat

TBA

18th March

Society Meeting 

TBA

15th April
Society AGM followed by
The GWR into the 1960's

21st May
TBA

17th June
TBA

15th July
TBA

19th August
TBA

16th September

Cumbria's Lost Railways

Peter Keat

21st October
TBA

18th November
Annual Photographic Competition
Irish Railway Miscellany by Peter Keat

16th December
Vintage Railway Films and Members Buffet 

Suggested donation £2.50

2023