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LOCOMOTIVE & CARRIAGE INSTITUTION LECTURES:

2010 - 2011 Season Lecture Programme:

2010

 

Tuesday 7th September

CANCELLED

Presidential Address    Nick Agnew, President The Locomotive & Carriage Institution

CANCELLED Due to strike action on London Underground

 

Tuesday 5th October The Restoration of BR Standard 9F, 92212   Les Greer

 

Tuesday 2nd November First Great Western   Mark Hopwood. Managing Director, First Great Western

 

Tuesday 7th December London's Disused Underground Stations  Jim Connor, Editor, London Railway Record

 

2011

 
Tuesday 4th January Reading Re-Modelling Scheme   Sean Murray,  Senior Project Engineer, Network Rail

 

Tuesday 1st February Rail Vehicle Collection   Anthony Coulls, Senior Curator, National Railway Museum

 

Tuesday 1st March Travels by train through Europe   Mark SmithThe Man in Seat Sixty-One

 

Tuesday 5th April 25 Years of the Spa Valley Railway    Brian HalfordDuty Station Master, Spa Valley Railway

 

Tuesday 3rd May The Royal Train - An Illustrated Presentation  Michael FosterFormer Inspector, British Transport Police

 

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. 

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:

Summer 2010 Lecture Programme:

Tuesday 14th September An Area Manager remembers  Jerry Gold  Area Manager from 1975 to 1988

 

Venue and Time:

Doors open at 18.40 for a 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: 03/09/2010.