Sheffield
Dates for Your Diary
Indoor meetings
| Monday 24th November Sheffield | The West Country in the 1960’s – an Era of Change Peter Gray A mainly steam presentation enhanced with the early diesel classes. |
| Monday 8th December Sheffield | The South Yorkshire Joint Railway Bob Gellatly The historical background to the construction of the line and a pictorial journey along the route. |
| Wednesday 17th December Sheffield | Christmas Social Evening Our now traditional gathering for banter, fun and seasonal refreshments. |
| Monday 12th January 2009 Sheffield | Members 10 Minute Papers Talks, slides, education, interest, controversy – anything goes. |
| Monday 26th January 2009 Sheffield | Annual General Meeting Any items for discussion to be given to the secretary prior to the meeting or raised under any other business. |
| Monday 9th February 2009 Sheffield | The Ecclesbourne Valley Railway Neil Ferguson-Leigh The history of the line and subsequent developments into the preservation era. |
| Monday 23rd February 2009 Sheffield | Tinsley Diesel Maintenance Depot Alan Lovecy An unstructured evening covering the history, design and operations of the depot but largely personal memories of interesting events. |
| Monday 9th March 2009 Sheffield | Nottingham to Norwich Martin Bromley A driver’s eye view of the route with comments, possibly retimed to start back at Sheffield. |
| Monday 23rd March 2009 Sheffield | Dick Hardy More interesting stories and anecdotes from the career of this well known professional railway man making a very welcome return to Sheffield. |
| Monday 20th April 2009 Sheffield | Western Steam in Colour Hugh Ballantyne A selection of a few black and white but mainly colour slides covering the period from the 1950’s to 1965 in the former Great Western area. |
Branch meetings are held at St Matthews Church Rooms, Carver Street, Sheffield S1 4FS, on the second and fourth Monday of the month (between mid September and mid May), commencing at 19.15 for a prompt 19:30 start. The Church rooms are approximately 10 minutes walk from the railway station and adjacent Sheffield Interchange (bus station). The nearest tram stop is City Hall, less than 5 minutes walk from the venue. This is served by blue route trams. A donation of £ 1.00 members / £ 2.00 non-members is requested.
Both Society members and non-members are very welcome to attend our meetings
October 2008