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LOCOMOTIVE & CARRIAGE INSTITUTION LECTURES:

Locomotive & Carriage Institution Lectures:

2008 Lecture Programme:

Tuesday 7th October Pullman Coaches Part 2 - Doug Lindsay
Tuesday 4th November British Railway Board Residuary Gregory Beecroft (Director BRBR)
Tuesday 2nd December Barrow Hill Depot, Chesterfield - Mervin Allcock (Project Manager)
2009:  
Tuesday 6th January AGM & Lunch - Further details mid August
Tuesday 3rd February Crossrail Project - Simon Bennet
Tuesday 3rd March Rail Alliance - Colin Flack
Tuesday 7th April Bern Lötschbergahn update Willi. Frauenfelder (Leiter Ausbildung Lokpersonal BLS Switzerland)
Tuesday 9th May East Midlands Trains - Tim Shoveller, Director East Midlands Trains

Venue and Time:

All meetings, except the AGM, are held at our normal venue: District Room (Room 727), 7th Floor, London Underground Headquarters, 55 Broadway, London, SW1.

This is ten minutes walk from Victoria Underground/National Rail stations and directly above St James Park London Underground station (District and Circle lines) .  For a map, click here:

All meetings, except the AGM, start at 18.00hrs sharp and finish around 19.30.  A number of us retire to a local hostelry afterwards to continue on with discussions!

Members of the Permanent Way Institution and the London Underground Railway Society are also most welcome to attend our lectures. 

* The AGM is being held this year at the Crown Public House at Tisbury - this a few minutes walk from Tisbury Railway Station (on the London Waterloo - Exeter line).  The AGM commences at 11.00hrs with lunch following at 12.30.

Security:

Due to increased security at 55 Broadway please note:

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Locomotive & Carriage Institution,  Permanent Way Institution and the London Underground Railway Society members should bring their membership card;

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If you are not a member of one of these organisations and are not attending with a L&CI member,  you are also most welcome to come along to one of our lectures, but we would be grateful if you could either email us on this link meetings@lococarriage.org.uk   or speak to any committee member first to let us know that you will be attending and so that we can make arrangements to collect you from 55 Broadway reception.

 

For members with protected travel facilities - all meetings are eligible for an educational free pass.   Please fill in the form at the rear of your latest newsletter or click:

London Underground Railway Society:

Additionally, through a reciprocal arrangement with the London Underground Record Society, Locomotive & Carriage Institution members are welcome to attend their meetings:

2008 Lecture Programme:

2008:
Tue 12th August TBA

 

Tue 9th September
 
The Track Replacement Programme and the Use Of Class 66 Diesels by Clive Maxwell, Contract Manager, Engineer’s Trains, Metronet Rail.

 

Tue 14th October

Leaf Fall Mitigation  by Gilbert Rowe, Principles Engineer (Brakes & Pneumatics)  Metronet Rail.

 

Tue 11th November

Metronet Alliance Earth Structures Projects by Dr. Nader Saffari, Earth Structures Manager and Jonathan Buttery, Project Manager, Metronet Rail.

 

Tue 9th December
 

The Aldwych Branch  by Antony Badsey-Ellis.

 

Venue and Time:

Meetings are at 19.00 for 19.15 start in the Upper Room, All Souls Clubhouse, 141 Cleveland Street, London W1T 6QG (note change in venue), which is near Regent's Park, Warren Street & Great Portland Street Underground Stations.  Please note that meetings are generally held on the second Tuesday of each month.

It is recommended that before attending a lecture you check the London Underground Railway Society website, in case there are any changes to the programme above.

 

This page was last updated on: 13/09/2008.