| Southampton Regional Group |
| Meet at The British Rail Institute, Romsey Road, Eastleigh, Hampshire, with the RCTS and Somerset and Dorset Association. on the third Wednesday of the month at 7.45pm. For more information telephone David Mead on 02380 293186. |
| Programme 2008 | |||
| Meetings 2008 | |||
| 16th | January | "John O'Groats to Lands End (By Rail)" - part 1 (we reach Shrewsbury) | Alistair Jeffery |
| 20th | February | "The Mid-Hants Railway, Past Present and Future" | David Yaldren |
| 19th | March | "Southern Railway Signalling" | Ted Goodman |
| 16th | April | "Light Rail in London: Docklands Light Railway and Croydon Tramlink" | Stephen Bigley |
| 21st | May | "Railways (but not as we know them) - Animal Powered" | Nick Kelly |
| 18th | June | see visits | |
| 16th | July | see visits | |
| 20th | August | No meeting | |
| 17th | September | "Join the O.R.R. and See the World" (ORR = Office of the Rail Regulator) | David Brace |
| 15th | October | "The Midsomer Norton (S&D) Project" | John Baxter |
| 19th | November | Quiz Evening with local railway groups (Volunteers required for the MHRPS team!) | |
| 10th | December | Note 2nd Wednesday. Railway Films on 16mm. with seasonal buffet. | Keith Harris |
| Outside Visits 2008 | |||
| 18th | June | Eastleigh Station for observation evening from 17.30 | |
| 16th | July | Didcot Parkway Station for observation evening from 16.30 | |
| Programme 2009 | |||
| Meetings 2009 | |||
| 21st | January | "John O'Groats to Land's End (by rail) - Part 2 (Shrewsbury to Land's End)" | Alistair Jeffery |
| 18th | February | "The West Somerset Railway" | Ian Wright |
| 18th | March | "Rails to Infinity" (Slides covering the world and finding somwhere in America called Infinity) | Terry Nicholls |
| 15th | April | "Gosling's Gallivants 2007" | Paul Gosling |
| 20th | May | "Glasgow in the 1960s" The RCTS President reminisces about the Glasgow he knew as a young man. | Hugh Gould |
| 17th | June | see visits | |
| 15th | July | see visits | |
| Outside Visits 2009 | |||
| 17th | June | Eastleigh Station for observation evening from 17.30 | |
| 15th | July | Didcot Parkway Station for observation evening from 16.30 | |
| Further Information |
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For more information on the Southampton and Waterside Group, contact David Mead 42 New Road, Ashurst, Southampton SO40 7BS. Tel. 02380 293186, e-mail MHRPSchair.regionalgroups@BTInternet.com Meetings are held jointly with The Railway Correspondence & Travel Society whose Branch Secretary is E. Vaughan, 7 Blackdown Close, Dibden Purlieu, Southampton, SO45 5QS tel. 02380 849533 and the Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust, organiser Brian Parnell, 121 Teg Down Meads, Winchester Hants, SO22 5NN tel. 01962 865252 |
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