September 2026
Thursday 3 September
Clwyd Railway Circle
"Severn Valley Steam" Highlights of 2012 and 2013
Steam Galas - Glyn Jones
9 September
Welsh Highland Railway North Wales Group.
Chris Jones – The Ff&WHR Archives & Dave Russell –
The CRhE/WHRS Archives.
19-20 September
Bala Model Railway Show
Saturday 19 September
Northern Belle "Settle &
Carlisle Steam Special", Wrexham General and Chester to
Carlisle. WCRC steam locomotive over the Settle &
Carlisle line. Diesel hauled otherwise.
October 2026
Thursday 1 October
Clwyd Railway Circle 'The view
from a signal box window' Adrian Bodlander
Friday 9 October:
Altrincham
Electric
Railway Preservation Society Lee Stanford "The
Norman Harrop Collection Part 1. A selection of
photographs from the Manchester Locomotive Society archive
of 1960s steam in the North West of England taken by
Norman Harrop".
14 October.
Welsh Highland Railway North Wales Group.
Dave Kent – "Here's one you might recall...?" –
(Early rebuilt WHR & South African steam.)
November 2026
Thursday 5 November
Clwyd Railway Circle "40
years of Railway in the Chester area" - Geoff Morris
11 November
Welsh Highland Railway North Wales
Group. Dave Waldren – ‘My View of
Reconstructing the WHR.’
Friday 13 November
Altrincham
Electric
Railway Preservation Society Tom Ingall "The
Reunification of the Great Central Railway". The talk
describes the plan to reunify the Great Central
Railway (North) and the Great Central Railway
preserved lines by building a new link in the centre of
Loughborough. Tom is a BBC presenter who has been a
volunteer at the Great Central Railway since the age of
14.
December 2027
Thursday 3 December
Clwyd Railway Circle Ian
Mainprize 'German Railway Development'
9 December
Welsh Highland Railway North Wales
Group – Mike Blackburn – The Chester & Holyhead
Railway.
January 2027
Friday 8 January
Altrincham Electric Railway
Preservation Society Jeremy Nicholls "100 Years of
Trains to Audlem" and "Nantwich and the Railway".
Contact Andrew Macfarlane, (0161) 928 9394)
February 2027
Friday 12 February
Altrincham
Electric
Railway Preservation Society Chris Davies "The
AERPS and the Last Years of the 1500 volts dc Altrincham
Electrics". Chris is a Vice-President of the Society and
he has been involved since the early days in the early
1970s. Contact Andrew Macfarlane, (0161) 928 9394
March 2027
Friday 12 March
Altrincham
Electric
Railway Preservation Society Paul Shackcloth
"People and Places 9". More images of the pre-1968 steam
railway with at least one person visible. Contact Andrew
Macfarlane, (0161) 928 9394 for confirmation)
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