York Evening Meetings
7pm for 7.30pm start
Venue: Mallard Suite NRM York
£3 donation in person, or online https://www.nrmfriends.org.uk/
Tuesday 11 February 2025 – 200 years of the Industrial Railway Anthony Coulls
Looking at the non-passenger railways in industrial applications across the UK, all gauges and locations – collieries to china clay, ports to peat extraction.
Tuesday 11 March 2025 – Two Centuries of Locomotive Development in the North-East Chris Nettleton
Pictures from the NRM archives and other collections, including film of the 1925 Stockton & Darlington Railway Centenary cavalcade and the exhibition at Faverdale Works.
Tuesday 8 April 2025 – Keeping Track Colin Brading
Beginning by looking at very early forms of track, including that used on the Stockton & Darlington, this presentation will trace the evolution of permanent way to the present day. It will show how track construction and working methods have changed over two centuries in response to operational needs and, at times, to lessons learned the hard way. Although these developments have had a profound effect on the life of the ‘platelayer’ over the years, the fundamental task of keeping the track in fine fettle remains the imperative it has always been.