Diary 2024


Meetings are held at the Primary Room, Totley Rise Methodist Church Rooms, Grove Road, Totley. S17 4DJ. There is ample car parking. Disabled access to our meeting room is available, but please give us advance warning of your attendance. Members pay £2 towards meeting costs, guests pay £3. Unless specified, all meetings start at 14.00hrs.

March 13th - 'A Transport Safari in the Counties Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire'. From Mike Eggenton

A mix of Trams, Buses, Railways and general shots around South Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and Notts. Covering the Mining activities. Locos pit top and underground, that are now becoming a distant memory

June 12th - AGM

Followed by a selection of slides from Tom Robinson on the local scene in the late fifties.

September 11th - 'Pit Paddies, Scrapyards and a Flooded Station - Beighton's Transport History'. From John May.

The Beighton area covering MS&LR/Great Central/North Midland/LD&ECR including various branches and sidings; Grant & McAllen, Sharpe Bros and 'paid paddies'; plus mention of Booth & Fisher/SJOC/Rotherham/East Midland

December 11th - 'Cartwright's Sheffield'. From Paul Fox.

Our city's tramway system in the early 1950s through the lens of Lawrence Cartwright, a one-time STD employee. Some wonderful street scenes of a bygone era.