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The CRC meets at St.Paul’s Church Centre, Rossmore Road, Marylebone, London NW1 6NJ. This is an attractive refurbished hall which offers a comfortable environment for our meetings. It is a short walk north from Marylebone station on the west side of the line. Rossmore Road crosses over the railway at the station throat. Bus routes 139 from Waterloo to West Hampstead and 189 from Brent Cross to Oxford Circus pass the door. It is outside the congestion charge zone and parking is free after 18.00 on both single yellow lines and residents’ bays as well as on meters.
Meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month except August - doors open 18.30 for 19.15 start, and there is a small admission charge to cover the cost of hiring the hall: light refreshments are on sale from 18.30 and during the interval. A selection of new and second-hand railway books is also on sale.
Unfortunately Michael Whitehouse wasn’t able to give his show scheduled for the February meeting but this will be rearranged for a later date. We are most grateful to John Snell who stepped in at short notice to take us on a tour of Europe in the 1960’s. Nearly 100 members were shown slides from every country in Europe west of the Iron Curtain. All but Holland featured ‘real’ steam and apart from the ‘usual’ main line engines we also saw some industrial railways including a rare 50cm gauge colliery line in Spain. Our thanks to John for a really excellent show.
Meetings now continue until July as scheduled -
Thursday 8th April - Metre Gauge Maroon. Hugh Ballantyne a frequent traveller to East Africa presents slides from the heyday of steam when Beyer Garratts reigned supreme.
Thursday 13th May - Queensland in the 1960’s. A visit down under with John Knowles when steam was still abundant in this sugar-producing state.
Thursday 10th June - Annual Boardroom + slides (subject to be finalised) (click here for the minutes of last year’s Boardroom).
Thursday 1st July - A visit to the delightful narrow-gauge Bredgar & Wormshill Railway near Sittingbourne featuring, of course, continental motive power. Bookings are now being taken for this private visit, but as numbers are limited early action is advised!. (CLICK HERE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND BOOKINGS)
Thursday 8th July - A Tribute to Dave Theobald. Dave was due to present a DVD show on this date but sadly died suddenly while on a trip to Eritrea in January this year. However, the show will go ahead as a tribute to Dave with Peter Greatorex showing Dave’s work which will be partly slides scanned to DVD together with videos.
After the August break meetings restart on Thursday 9th September.
The provisional programme for the season follows but there are still one or two gaps, so all offers of presenting a show or part-show for future seasons will be welcomed. Anyone prepared to assist please contact Adrian Palmer (Email akpalmer@talktalk.net) who normaly hosts the London meetings.
Thursday 9th September - Southern Africa. Ron White (of Colourail fame) presents Angola, Mozambique and South Africa in the 1960’s.
Thursday 14th October - CRC 50th Anniversary Meeting. To include presentations by two attendees at the inaugural meeting. Founder Lance King and stalwart Charles Firminger with pictures taken around 1960.
Thursday 11th November - Steam to the Arctic Circle. A DVD presentation by Nick Lera.
Thursday 9th December - Colorado Rails 1989. Slide presentation by Bob Stonehouse.
Thursday 13th January - A Foreign Miscellany. Ivor Harding.
Thursday 10th February - Switzerland. Brian Stephenson.
Thursday 10th March - Geoff Todd. Gujarat, India c.1970. Sound cine on DVD.
Thursday 14th April - Lawrence Marshall. Cuba revisited.
Thursday 12th May - Richard Pelham. More rare material from the Basil Roberts collection, this time from South East Asia.
Thursday 9th June - Boardroom then Ray Schofield.
Thursday 14th July - TBA
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Thursday 8th September - Turkey. Ted Talbot.
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