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Talk Synopses
(in brackets is the date the talk was given to the group)
All Gas and Flared Trousers
Mark Evans (20/4/2009)
The Railways of Switzerland
George Howe (9/3/2009)
Railways at War
Shaun Houldridge, NRM (10/11/2008)
The Wensleydale Railway - Rebirth of a Rural Railway
David Gibson, Wensleydale Railway Association (13/10/2008)
Rails to Metro-land
Clive Foxell (8/9/2008)
Be Safe Men ! Making Railway Workers Safe 1900 - 1939
Mike Esbester, Reading University (14/4/2008)
The Romance of Steam on the London, Chatham & Dover Railway
Alan Postlethwaite (11/2/2008)
NRM - Building our Future from the Past
Andrew Scott
Head of NRM (12/11/2007)
The Little Engines that went to Sleep
Mr John Tidmarsh
Sutton Coldfield Miniature Railway (8/10/2007)
The Preservation of Electric Traction
Peter Stavely, Chairman Southern Electric Group (10/9/2007)
A Film Evening
Frank Banfield (12/3/2007)
The NRM Search Engine Project
Richard Taylor
NRM Collections Access Manager (12/2/207)
Romance and Railways
Dr Jill Murdoch
Institute of Rialway Studies & Transport History (13/11/2006)
The Life of a Railway Journalist
Philip Marsh
Railway Magazine (9/10/2006)
Signalling on the Great Cockcrow Railway
Tony Howker (10/4/2006)
European Railways
Alan Walters (13/3/2006)
The Kent and East Sussex Railway
Donald Wilson (14/11/2005)
The Work of the NRM Engineering Department
Jim Rees, NRM Rail Vehicle Collections Manager (10/10/2005)
The Work of the Railway Mission since 1881
Ian Markey(2/9/2005)
The Railway Heritage Committee
Mr. T. Neil Butters, Strategic Rail Authority (11/4/2005)
The NRM Knowledge & Collections Department
Helen Ashby,
National Railway Museum (14/3/2005)
The LCGB Ken Nunn Picture Collection
Charles Firminger Charles Firminger (14/2/2005)
Ideals Above One's Station-Form Beyond Function
Mark Evans
International experience with High Speed Trains
Professor R A Smith, FREng, SD,
Head of Mechanical Engineering Imperial College (8/3/2004)
The Restoration of SR No.850, Lord Nelson
Neil Kearns, Eastleigh Railway Preservation Society (9/2/2004)
The Deltic locomotives in service on the ECML
Ray Ekins, Deltic Preservation Society (10/11/2003)
Computer Interactives and Train Simulators at the NRM
Robin Gray, NRM (8/9/2003)
Operating or Wrecking the National Collection
Richard Gibbon, NRM (12/5/2003)
Lynton & Barnstaple Railway
by Paul Gower (10/3/2003)
The Pendon Museum
by Ken Surman (9/9/2002)
The Oxford to Cambridge Line - Then and Now
by Richard Crane (13/5/2002)
The Work of the Sir Nigel Gresley Locomotive Preservation Trust
by Keith and Joan Jackson (11/3/2002)
The Work of the GWR Preservation Society
by R. A. Gorridge, Chairman GWR Preservation Group (12/11/2001)
Out of the Black Hole
by David Wright, Curator - collections at the NRM (10/9/2001)
Dairy of a Trainspotter
Michael G Harvey (14/5/2001)
The Engineering and History of Robert Stephenson's Rocket
by Michael Bailey and John P Glithero (12/3/2001)
Virtual Reality at the NRM
by Robin Gray (13/11/2000)
Leighton Buzzard Light Railway and the restoration of the Protected Simplex locomotive
by Tony Tomkins and Chris Grimes, LBNGR (11/9/2000)
By Rail to Southgate Cemetery
by Martin Dawes (8/5/2000)
Aspects of the Great Western
by Peter Lugg (13/3/2000)
The National Collection of Railway Posters
by Beverley Cole (15/11/1999)
A Shedmaster's Life at Stewarts Lane
by Richard Hardy (13/9/1999)
The Railways of Sri Lanka
by George Rutter (17/5/1999)
An Evening with Ron White of Colour-Rail
(15/3/1999)
A Railwayman Remembers
by Richard Hardy (16/11/1998)
London's Victorian Railways
by Mr R Brasier, London Transport Museum (21/9/1998)
After the Last Train has Gone
by Greg Beecroft, British Rail Property Board (16/3/1998)
The Midland and South Western Junction Railway
by Alan Gosling, FNRM SoE Group (18/5/1998)
The Glasgow Area in the Post-war Years
Hugh Gould (17/11/1997)
The Photographic collection of the National Railway Museum
Ed Bartholemew, Curator of Photographic Collection at the NRM (15/9/1997)
16mm film presentation
Alan Willmot (12/5/1997)
"Degrees of Indifference" Why Historians Should Care About Railways
Prof Colin Divall (18/11/1996)
Alan Pegler Reminisces
Alan Pegler (23/9/1996)
Midland Railway Trust
Peter Featherstone (18/3/1996)
Clan Line - A New Era Begins
Douglas Padgham (13/11/1995)
Venice-Simplon Orient Express
Bob Barnes (27/3/1995)
The Future of the NRM
Andrew Scott (18/10/1995)
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