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The CRC meets at St.Paul’s Church Centre, Rossmore Road, Marylebone, London NW1 6NJ. This is an attractive hall which offers a comfortable environment for our meetings. It is a short walk north from Marylebone station on the west side of the line. Rossmore Road crosses over the railway at the station throat. Bus routes 139 from Waterloo to West Hampstead and 189 from Brent Cross to Oxford Circus pass the door. It is outside the congestion charge zone and parking is free after 18.30 on both single yellow lines and meters. Meetings are held on the second Thursday of each month from September through to July with an August break.
Meetings start at 18.30 with doors open from 18.00 but note revised summer times below. With a short interval they usually finish by 21.00. Light refreshments are available and there is always a large selection of pre-owned foreign railway books for sale at attractive prices. There is a small admission charge and season tickets are also available offering further savings.
Because of the evening lighting in summer months, the start time for the May, June and July meetings has been deferred to the former start time of 19.15 with doors open from 18.45. These meetings are as follows -
Thursday 14th May Terry Bagworth East Africa
Thursday 11th June Geoff Warren Steam in Pakistan in 1984 on broad and narrow gauges.
Thursday 9th July A two part programme. First Dafydd Fell Taiwan Sugar Railways. Dafydd is the co-author of a recently published book on the final decades of Taiwanese sugar railways and this presentation will be based on this period. Ray Scholefield will follow with Indian Narrow Gauges. He will concentrate on lines to ‘Hill Stations’ but will also show scenes from other areas including Sri Lanka and finally a nod to the locos that have found their way back to the UK.
As usual there is no August meeting and meetings resume in September.
Offers to present a whole or half-evening show are always welcome - please contact the Secretary Adrian Palmer at akpalmer@talktalk.net or 07774 859871 to discuss - our programme has a number of slots available for the 2025/26 season.
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