THE BRITISH OVERSEAS RAILWAYS HISTORICAL TRUST   A UK Registered Educational Charity

Events, Talks, Zoom Meetings and Shows

EVENTS

Events are opportunities for non-members to meet us, and for members to meet the Council of Management and other Trust members.

Our friends, the Maldegem-Eeklo Steam Railway in Belgium, will be holding their annual steam festival on May 3-4, 2025. They plan to have 5 standard gauge and 1-2 narrow gauge locomotives in operation. See their website for details. Note, BORHT can't attend this year.

We will attend the French Railway Society's summer rendezvous 2025 on Sunday 1st June, 2025 at Ashstead Peace Memorial Hall KT 21 2BE (situated on A24 between Leatherhead and Epsom, easy access from Junction 9, M25 and by rail). Further details in due course.

We will also attend the Chatham and District model Railway Club exhibition on 19-20th July, 2025. See https://www.chatham-mrc.co.uk/exhibition.

ZOOM/TEAMS MEETINGS

The Trust arranges occasional Zoom or Teams meetings on overseas railways topics. Members and non-members for whom we have email addresses will be notified by email.

Saturday 22nd February at 19:00hrs GMT

Sylvester Damus will speak on John Wynford Philipps and his development of the Buenos Ayres & Pacific Railway. It is a fascinating story of railway policy with application of innovative financial methods by a friend and supporter of David Lloyd George, the radical Liberal Leader and war-time PM.

Key words: Buenos Ayres & Pacific Railway Co., John Wynford (Viscount) Philipps (1860-1938), wife, father-in-law, innovative financing, leveraging and leasing, railway development policy, conflict with other companies, through (freight) rates, access to ports and markets, construction of port, tramway, hotels, Owen Philipps (Lord Kylsant of the Royal Mail Steamships), acquisition of steamships. Period covered: 1899-1908.

If you would like to attend one of these preentations, please register your interest at borht.org@gmail.com

Show Reports

Sierra Leone at Locomotion, 8 & 9 Sep 2012.

Press Releases

See our Press Release page.