Marlow & District Railway Society Programme

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Forthcoming Events

PLEASE NOTE: All our meetings are HYBRID, with the actual meeting being held at the BOURNE END COMUNITY CENTRE, as well as being tranmitted on ZOOM to MDRS members, UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED.

Meetings start at 19.30 and for those on ZOOM, please ensure you have registered before 18.30 on the day of the meeting. An e-mail invitation is sent out to members a week ahead of the meeting. Thank you.

19^th February 2026	Mike Walker	>> Society's AGM << followed by "White Gold - The story of china clay and the railways." Mike will examine the story of the Cornish china clay industry and the role the railways have historically and continue to have in its transportation both to ports in the county for export and to other parts of the country
19^th March 2026	Christopher Jones	"The Central Wales Line Part 1 Shrewsbury to Llandovery." In the 1840's two new railway companies The LNWR of 1846 and The MR of 1844 were both engaged in a race to get to the riches of South Wales principally the town of Swansea. The LNWR turned out to be the more successful of the two and obtained the freight traffic from the other, post grouping. We will travel "Over the hills and far away" on the track of The LNWR towards Swansea
16^th April 2026	Jeremy Harrison	"Part 2 of 'Railways before the War - that's the Great War" A presentation of Black and White images, drawn from the Ken Nunn collection and scanned from glass plates, illustrating railways in Britain before the Great War. Tonight's is the second of three parts, starting with a few images from before the Great Boer War (as it was known at the time), and then featuring Eastern England, Scotland and Ireland. The Ken Nunn collection was acquired by the LCGB after Ken's death, and although it has now been transferred to the NRM, 'showing rights' to the scanned images were retained, and Jeremy Harrison is making this presentation wearing his LCGB hat.
21^st May 2026	Tom Burnham	"The Kent & East Sussex Railway Past, Present & Future" More details to follow

For more information about the society please contact us. © ~ MDRS 2026

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