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Meetings

MONDAY, JUNE 3

Peak Rail Association (Sheffield branch) The Harlequin, 108 Nursery St, Sheffield S3 8GG. 19.30. ‘55 Years of Railway Photography’: Les Nixon.

TUESDAY, JUNE 4

Chipping Norton Railway Club Chipping Norton Town Hall, Market Place, Chipping Norton OX7 5NA. 19.30. ‘The Chalford Railmotors’: Mike Fenton.

Gravesend Railway Enthusiasts’Society Emmanuel Baptist Church, 50 Windmill St, Gravesend DA12 1BB. 19.30. ‘My 39 Years as a Driving Instructor’: Kevin Curtis.

Leicester Railway Society Braunstone Civic Centre, 2019 Kingsway, Leicester LE3 2PP. 19.30. Special programme for the LRS 80th: ‘Nearly 50 Years in the Railway Industry’: Adrian Shooter.

Enfield Transport Circle First floor meeting room, Enfield Drill Hall, 1 Old Park Ave, Enfield, Middx EN2 6PJ. 20.00. The Inaugural Roger Elkin Tribute Presentation. ‘Photographic Tour of Leslie &Roger’s Visits to the Eastern USA - in the 2000s’: Leslie Drake, long-term friend of Roger Elkin, TETC’s first chairman.

Railway Correspondence and Travel Society (RCTS) Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Rd, Watford WD17 1JJ. 19.00. ‘Australia – Australian Railways in the 1990’: Rob Freeman.

Worcester Locomotive Society Barbourne Ex Services Club, The Moors, Worcester WR1 3ED. 19.00. Annual meeting followed by ‘The Hixon Railway Disaster’: Malcolm Garner.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5

Burton Railway Society Marston’s Sports & Social Club, Shobnall Road, Burton-upon-Trent DE14 2BD. 19.30. Annual Railway Quiz: Chris Eaton & Dave Hook.

THURSDAY, JUNE 6

Ashchurch, Tewkesbury & District Rail Promotion Group Tewkesbury Library, High St, Tewkesbury. 19.30. Presentation by John Smith, manging director of GBRf.

Bath Railway Society Church Hall, St Mary’s Church Hall, Bathwick, Bath. 19.30. Annual meeting followed by ‘The Heritage Railway Association’: Mark Smith.

Friends of the Stockton & Darlington Railway Darlington Cricket Club, South Terrace, Feethams, Darlington DL1 5JD. 19.10. Monthly meeting.

Lutterworth Railway Society United Reformed Church, George St, Lutterworth LE17 4EF. 19.30. ‘Essex Thameside Railways’: Bob Poole.

Great Central Railway Society (Sheffield branch) The Harlequin, 108 Nursery St, Sheffield S3 8GG. 19.30. ‘Hengist - the Building of aNew Clan’: Chris Jones.

RCTS Methodist Church Hall, Silver St, Stony Stratford, Milton Keynes MK11 1BE. 19.30. ‘Anglian Transitions’: John Day.

FRIDAY, JUNE 7

Slough &Windsor Railway Society The Manor,

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