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Meetings

MONDAY, JULY 2

Peak Rail Association (Sheffield branch) The Harlequin, 108 Nursery Street, Sheffield S3 8GG. 19.30. ‘Toy Trains in the Sky’: David Charlesworth.

TUESDAY, JULY 3

Chipping Norton Railway Club Town Hall, Market Place, Chipping Norton OX7 5NA. 19.30. ‘The Regional Railways Story’: Alex Green.

Enfield Transport Circle First Floor Meeting Room, Enfield Drill Hall, 1, Old Park Avenue, Enfield, Middx EN2 6PJ. 20.00. ‘Memories of the SVRPS – North London branch’: Bill Santer & Malcolm Wood.

Gravesend Railway Enthusiasts’Society Emmanuel Baptist Church, Windmill Street, Gravesend DA12 1BB. 19.30. ‘My Story of 56 years of Driving’: Kelvin Harris.

Railway Correspondence and Travel Society (RCTS) Beechen Grove Baptist Church, Clarendon Road, Watford WD17 1JJ. 19.00. ‘That was the year that was – 1965’: Geoff Plumb.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 4

Bradford Railway Circle Sedbergh Community Centre, Huddersfield Road, Odsal, Bradford

West Yorkshire BD6 1DJ 19.30. ‘Railways Around the Midlands in the 1970s’: John Bromfield.

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