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
13th February
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 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
The Selsey Tramway
by Bill Gage
by Bill Gage
19th April
Society AGM followed
by the Campbeltown & Machrihanish
Light Railway by David Lusby
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
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
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
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
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
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
Now it can be told
French Resistance in WW2
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
GWR Motor Buses, Steam Railmotors, Push-Pull trains.
Diesel Railcars and Halts.
Brian Jackson
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
21st May Society Meeting tba
25th 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
