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.

On Saturday 5th April at 19:00hrs GMT, Glyn Thomas will speak on the Brief and Eventful History of the British-Financed Shanghai-Nanking Railway (1898-1949) via Teams.

The Shanghai-Nanking Railway was built as a British concession railway linking two of China's most important cities. Built between 1905 and 1908, the line saw only brief periods of stability. At several times in its existence it was embroiled in major regional conflicts that often caused significant damage and interruption of services. The line was nationalized by the People's Republic of China in 1949, and became a major trunk route. A parallel route was used for China's first major high-speed railway.

This talk will concentrate on the period when the railway operated as a separate entity, largely under joint Chinese-British control, and briefly touch on the World War 2 period of Japanese occupation.

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

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