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May
Saturday 31st	External Visit	North Road and Shildon Museums Travel to North Road Museum to see the history the railways in the area and use the new viewing area to see the progress of Prince of Wales P2 locomotive. We then travel onwards to Shildon to visit Locomotion Museum and Rail 200 exhibition. Click above for more info and to book	Free Pass
June
Saturday 21st	External Visit	Epping - Ongar Railway Further details shortly	Free Pass
July
Thursday 10th	External Visit	New Build Clan Class Locomotive 72010 Hengist Further details shortly	Free Pass
August
Wednesday 13th	External Visit	Mid-Norfolk Railway Further details shortly	Free Pass
September
Tuesday 2nd	Institution lecture	Presidential Address	Free Pass
October
Tuesday 7th	Institution lecture	High Speed 2	Free Pass
November
Tuesday 4th	Institution lecture	Wolverton Works Phil Marsh Railway Historian	Free Pass
December
Tuesday 2nd	Institution lecture	Sheffield - Kirton Lindsey via Gainsborough 35mm Slide Show Steven Gay	Free Pass

Free Pass

For members with protected travel facilities - all educational meetings and visits shown as "free pass" only are eligible for an educational free pass from your home station to the event location. For applicable overseas visits, the educational free pass will be from your home station to UK departure port/airport/Eurostar station (National Rail travel only). If eligible, please fill in the form at the rear of your latest newsletter or click the button on the left.

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Lectures:

Venue and Time:

All lectures, will be held at our normal venue, Palestra House, 197 Blackfriars Rd, London SE1 8JZ

Palestra House is located opposite Southwark Underground station.

All lectures, unless marked otherwise, will commence at 18.00hrs and are scheduled to finish no later than 19.30, including questions.

There is an opportunity to join other members and guest to continue discussions at a nearby public house after the lectures.

For directions to Palestra:

Palestra

Institution Events for 2025

Access to Palestra - Security:

For lectures on the Ground Floor

Please wait in the reception area until called by a Locomotive & Carriage Institution Council member. It is not necessary to sign-in at reception and you will not need to go through the security gates.

For lectures on the Upper Floors

Transport for London security rules for access to Palestra require that Institution members attending an Institution lecture which is not on the Ground Floor must report in the first instance to the reception desk, where they will be given an individual building pass. All members must be accompanied by a building pass holder at all times - please wait in reception until a pass holder meets you to escort you through the building.

Please inform a member of the L&CI Committee who hold a building pass if you need to leave the lecture early, ideally please have this conversation before the start of the lecture so that arrangements can be made in advance. It is not possible to go down stairs without been escorted by a building pass holder.

Note that all meetings between September 2024 and January 2025 have been booked for Ground Floor Meeting Rooms C1 or C2.

This page was last updated on: 24/05/25

North Rd and Shildon Museums Palestra Overseas Visits Free Pass