The Bristol Railway Archive

This Friday 6 January 7.30pm, at St Teresa's Church Hall, 71 Gloucester Road North, Filton BS34 7PL, next to Esso Tesco, our Branch Chairman Brian Arman will be taking us on a journey over the border, ' To Scotland for Steam'. A large selection of new and secondhand books will be on sale, worth a ...

This Friday 7 October 7.30pm, at St Teresa's Church Hall, 71 Gloucester Road North, Filton BS34 7PL, next to Esso Tesco, we are pleased to welcome back Gerry Nichols to present ÔÇÿSteam in West WalesÔÇÖ. West Wales in this context is West of Swansea and South of the Cumbrian main line to Aberystwyth ...

This Friday 2 September 7.30pm, at St Teresa's Church Hall, 71 Gloucester Road North, Filton BS34 7PL, next to Esso Tesco, we welcome South Wales Branch Secretary Peter Fortune to open our 2022/23 programme with a talk on the 'Rhymney Railway'. Peter will be taking us on a journey down the line from ...

This Friday 6 May 7.30pm, at St Teresa's Church Hall, 71 Gloucester Road North, Filton BS34 7PL, next to Esso Tesco, John Day will be visiting us from Ipswich to present, 'BR in the Blue Era', using pictures from his extensive collection. A large selection of new and secondhand books will be on sale ...

This Friday 1 April 7.30pm, at St Teresa's Church Hall, 71 Gloucester Road North, Filton BS34 7PL, next to Esso Tesco, Ian Bennett will be presenting, 'Steam Around Bristol', using pictures from his collection of Maurice Dean's excellent slides. A large selection of new and secondhand books will be ...

This Friday 4 March 7.30pm, at St Teresa's Church Hall, 71 Gloucester Road North, Filton BS34 7PL, next to Esso Tesco, Branch Chairman Brian Arman will be presenting, 'Terry Nicholls - A Railway Life', an evening of Terry's pictures, and Brian will be looking for help with the captions. A large ...

This Friday 4 Febrary 7.30pm, at St Teresa's Church Hall, 71 Gloucester Road North, Filton BS34 7PL, next to Esso Tesco, Branch President Arthur Turner will be presenting, 'North Wales in the 1980s', recounting a time when the line was busy with loco hauled freight and passenger trains. A large ...

This Friday 7 January 7.30pm, at St Teresa's Church Hall, 71 Gloucester Road North, Filton BS34 7PL, next to Esso Tesco, Branch Chairman Brian Arman will be presenting 'Swindon Works the Final Years', detailing the end of over 140 years of locomotive building and revealing what might have been. A ...

This Friday 3 December 7.30pm, at St Teresa's Church Hall, 71 Gloucester Road North, Filton BS34 7PL, next to Esso Tesco, Stuart Warr will be presenting 'Railway Holidays in the West Country, Part 1 - Cornwall'. Stuart will also be available to sign copies of his new book, 'The Journey', a railway ...

This Friday 5 November 7.30pm, at St Teresa's Church Hall, 71 Gloucester Road North, Filton BS34 7PL, next to Esso Tesco, Gerry Nichols will be presenting 'South Wales in the 1960s' using excellent pictures from Alan Jarvis and Mark Warburton. A large selection of new and secondhand books will be on ...