Welcome to the website of East Yorkshire Railway Society. The society was formed in 1991 to bring together and encourage railway enthusiasts of all ages and interests with monthly meetings featuring videos, photo presentations and talks by members and guest speakers covering a wide range of railway topics. Members' interests are varied, including historical, modelling, steam, modern image and overseas railways and our membership includes some excellent photographers and modellers. Some of their work can be seen on our feature pages and you can click any of the photos on this page for larger images.
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We now meet at Driffield Community Centre, Mill Street, Driffield YO25 6TR. 7:00 for 7:30pm on the second Monday of every month, excluding December and August. There's parking at the Community Centre or at nearby Mill Street YO25 6TN (73 spaces, free after 6pm). It's about a ten minute walk from Driffield Station. See map. Annual membership of the society is now only £5 with £2 admission to meetings, £4 non-members.

Our 2025 programme opened at our new venue with an interesting film about the King's Lynn to Dereham branch which closed in 1968. The line ran for 26 miles from west to east across rural Norfolk, serving only Swaffham and a number of small villages along the bucolic route; it is a wonder it lasted as long as it did. 3 miles of the line from King's Lynn to Middleton Towers remains open for freight, serving a sand quarry.
 
In the second half of the evening, Allen Fergusson told us about his 'Misspent Youth' with a nostalgic look back at his trainspotting days. Some excellent images, mostly Alan's own shots, of steam at Bridlington in the early sixties and the transition to diesel power, bringimg back fond memories for many members.
B1 61087 of 61A Doncaster shed is serviced at Bridlington 16th August 1963. Photo: Richard Postil.  A Black Five arrives at Bridlington in 1960 Photo: John Taylor.

Our Annual General meeting was held in February followed by Part 2 of Eddie Parker's 'Shap then and now' slide show. As a southerner, and with no transport of his own at the time, Eddie bitterly regrets his inability to reach the wilds of Grayrigg, the Lune Gorge and Shap to witness and record the sights and sounds of steam hauled trains powering up the gradients, with a banker working hard at the rear. Or a Duchess lifting twelve or more unaided, having eschewed a banker at Tebay. Eddie made up for that in later years, making numerous visits with his long suffering wife to accumulate a considerable portfolio of his own photographs of more modern traction in those glorious locations, both passenger and freight, the latter often double-headed.
 
Many of Eddie's photographs feature in the books of Mike Wedgwood. Mike's latest, Railways around York: Four Decades of Change, is published by Key Publishing, price £16.99.
 

Left: Britannia 70039 Sir Christopher Wren taking water at Dillar troughs after the descent from Shap with a Glasgow to Liverpool express on 15th July 1967.
Right: 70029 Shooting Star climbs unaided past Shap Wells with the 13.20 Euston to Glasgow on the same a day.