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.

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" The K&ESR was one of the first railways to be worked under the Light Railways Act of 1896. It closed to passengers in 1954 and to goods in 1961, but a small band of enthusiasts succeeded in reopening it from Tenterden to Bodiam between 1974 and 2000. Work is actively in progress on the "missing link" to the national network at Robertsbridge.
18^th June 2026	David Pinniger	"Irish Narrow Gauge" A trip to the Isle of Man in 1963 awakened David's interest in the 3ft Narrow Gauge He then discovered a book called 'Narrow Gauge Railways of Ireland' by Fayle. This opened his eyes to the island’s wonderful variety of railways and locomotives which were, by then, all closed and abandoned. David then started to collect photographs and make models in 7mm scale to try and recreate some of what he had missed. Fortunately, some of our best known railway photographers such as Patrick Whitehouse and Ivo Peters had the good fortune to see and capture many of the lines both in black and white and colour. David's talk is based around his slide collection and will cover the major systems such as the County Donegal and Cavan and Leitrim but also include some of the minor and less well-known railways. The presentation will finish with his favourite railway in County Kerry both in its heyday and the sad demise of a rescued fragment.
16^th July 2026	Christopher Jones	"The Central Wales Line Part 2" Llandovery to Swansea. This talk will include the Carmarthen and the Llanmorlais branches

For more information about the society, please email us at 'marlow.drs@gmail.com' © ~ MDRS 2026

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