The free talks programme is on the last Saturday of the month at 10.30am & will be held at the ‘Sunday Building’ at ‘Locomotion’ Shildon DL4 1PQ.
Saturday, 22 February 2025 – Anthony Coulls: ‘200 years of the Industrial Railway’
Saturday, 29 March 2025: Derek Newby ‘Beyond Shildon Tunnel 2 – The effect of the opening of the Shildon Tunnel on SW
Durham’
Saturday, 26 April 2025: Richard A Barber ‘The life & times of R. W. Taylor – Divisional Motive Power Superintendent’
Saturday, 27 September 2025 – Michael Bailey & Peter Davison: ‘An Archaeological Study of ‘Locomotion’
Saturday, 25 October 2025 – Ken Hodgson: ‘A photographic show of the cavalcade in 1975’
Saturday, 29 November 2025 – Mike Thompson: ‘S&DR operations over Stainmore, to Furness & West Cumberland’