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    PeterJ @PeterJ Mod Slough - updated 1mo
    <<< Slough & Windsor Railway Society meeting: >>> British Rail: A New History – Christian Wolmar Award-winning writer and broadcaster Christian Wolmar will be presenting an evening based on his latest book: the authoritative and enthralling history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail. From its creation after the Second World War, through its fifty-year lifetime, British Rail was an innovative powerhouse that transformed our transport system. Uniting disparate lines into a highly competent organisation – heralding 'The Age of the Train' – and, for a time, providing one of the fastest regular rail services in the world. Born into post-war austerity, traumatised, impoverished and exploited by a hostile press, the state-owned railway was dismissed as a dinosaur unable to evolve, and swept away by a government hell-bent on selling it off. Now, award-winning writer Christian Wolmar provides a new perspective on national loss in a time of privatisation. British Rail is ripe for a new history. All are welcome. See you there! Please see website (swrs.co.uk) for location and further information, including parking charges at the station car park. Remember that The Manor is easy to reach by train or bus, and is but a short walk from the town centre car parks.
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    PeterJ @PeterJ Mod Slough - updated 9mo
    <<< Slough & Windsor Railway Society meeting: >>> Filming Exploits on the Mid Hants Railway – Will Stratford From 'History' to 'How it works', the Watercress Films Unit only formally came into existence a few years ago. Since creation, Will Stratford and his team have boosted the railway's publicity on YouTube with followers regularly tuning-in to find out more about the Watercress Line. In this talk, Will takes us through the creation of the film unit, highlights some notable projects, and dives into the behind-the-scenes magic that goes into making an episode. (Photo: inside the tender of BR Standard Class 4 75079, while filming an episode on how a steam locomotive works. Will Stratford explains: "We decided to put our own twist on it by doing it from the inside. We started inside the tender, then worked forward to the firebox, inside a boiler, smokebox, and underneath around the motion. It was great fun!" ) All are welcome. See you there! Please see website (swrs.co.uk) for location and further information, including parking charges at the station car park. Remember that The Manor is easy to reach by train or bus, and is but a short walk from the town centre car parks.
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    <<< Slough & Windsor Railway Society meeting: >>> Rambling Railwayman's Recollections - Geoff Burch A rare opportunity to hear stories of railway life direct from someone who experienced them first-hand on the footplate. This is Geoff's second visit to the Manor. Previously he told us about becoming a fireman and driver at the end of steam on the Southern Region. This year he will continue the story as he moved on to driving diesel locomotives and electric multiple units. Geoff is a great speaker, so this should be a very good evening. Photo: Steam on the Southern: Bulleid wartime Q1 class 0-6-0 33027 passing through Clapham Junction station with a down milk train, 18 July 1964. (Ben Brooksbank – Geograph [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons) All are welcome. See you there! Please see website (swrs.co.uk) for location and further information, including parking charges at the station car park. Remember that The Manor is easy to reach by train or bus, and is but a short walk from the town centre car parks.
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    PeterJ @PeterJ Mod Slough - 10mo
    <<< Slough & Windsor Railway Society meeting: >>> Maurice Deane's Branch Line Photography - Mike Fenton Mike Fenton's third visit to the SWRS is a presentation on the photography of Maurice Deane. Mike got to know Maurice whilst engaged upon research for his recently published Malmesbury Railway Companion book (Lightmoor Press), which features a chapter on Mr Deane's life and work. Maurice was a famed modeller and raconteur, a bank manager by profession, and was a photographer who really understood the operational detail involved in his subjects. He had a great reputation as 'the branch line man', who in the late 1940s set out to photograph all the dead-end termini on the old LSWR and GWR networks. His favourite branch terminus on the GWR was Malmesbury, through which Mike and Maurice had an obvious easy rapport! (Photo: Collett 58XX class 0-4-2 5804 at Tetbury in 1962. (Maurice Deane)) Mike has written four major hardback railway books, with two more in preparation on the GWR in the Stroud Valley, and will have copies available on the evening. There will be a short musical interlude before the break - Mike is a well-known exponent of the chorded zither and will also have CDs available of his playing. All are welcome. See you there! Please see website (swrs.co.uk) for location and further information, including parking charges at the station car park. Remember that The Manor is easy to reach by train or bus, and is but a short walk from the town centre car parks.
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    PeterJ @PeterJ Mod Slough - 10mo
    SWRS Friday Meeting: Cinema Transport Presentation (archive 16mm ciné films) Frank Banfield presents another of his very popular evenings of archive 16mm ciné film, shown using a vintage projector on our big screen. Previous evenings have included documentaries, BTC publicity, vintage adverts, cartoons, and excerpts from home movies. Films mostly feature railway subjects, but trams, buses, canals, docks, heavy road haulage and air travel may also make an appearance. All are welcome. See you there! SWRS members please note that the discretionary parking arrangements at The Manor are back in place. Please see website for further information. Please see website (swrs.co.uk) for location and further information, including parking charges at the station car park.* Remember that The Manor is easy to reach by train or bus, and is but a short walk from the town centre car parks.
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    PeterJ @PeterJ Mod Slough - updated 10mo
    Just a note for businesses. Please don't bother asking to join the loop, as free advertisements aren't wanted in this loop. To anyone else wanting to join, please be patient! (If you can, send me a message, as that should let me know you're waiting.)
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    PeterJ @PeterJ Mod Slough - 12mo
    SWRS Friday Meeting: Good Friday Railwayana & Miscellaneous Auction There's usually more 'miscellania' than 'railwayana', but still... Experience the unique SWRS style of auctioneering, join in the witty banter, and bag yourself a bargain, or ten... Yes! It's nearly time for the legendary SWRS Auction!! (raising money towards the upkeep of Slough Estates No.3). So, dig through your cupboards, lofts and shelves for any spare railwayana, unwanted presents, and all those other things you never use. Bring it along on the night, for us to sell... ...and don't forget your wallet: we need you to buy things as well! See here for the kind of things we'd like you to bring: http://www.swrs.co.uk/swrsweb/html/special_events.html... Please note: the idea is that people donate items for the Society to sell by way of auction, NOT for the Society to sell things on commission. And also that we still have to charge an admission fee to cover the running costs of The Manor. All are welcome. See you there! SWRS members please note that the discretionary parking arrangements at The Manor are back in place. Please see website for further information. Please see website (www.swrs.co.uk) for location and further information, including parking charges at the station car park.* Remember that The Manor is easy to reach by train or bus, and is but a short walk from the town centre car parks.

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