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 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.

After the summer break, our Autumn programme opened in September with an excellent medium format slideshow by Eddie Parker. Featuring mostly diesel traction from the 1980s, but with much of other interest included, the high-quality slide format took the show to a new level. Coupled with Eddie's superbly informative and knowledgable commentary, it made for a very entertaining evening.

Here are a few examples from the show, grabbed from the screen, which, unfortunately, cannot do the pictures full justice. Eddie has several thousand more slides in this format, so we hope he will treat us to a nother show before very long.
 
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.


October's meeting took us to the West Country with Dave Smith's slides in and around Devon in the 1980s. This was a favourite location for family holidays and Dave too full advantage of the photographic opportunities, from the ex-LSWR branches and former main line and from Exeter westwards along the former GWR mainline, taking in the red sandstone cliffs and seawall around Dawlish and the fearsome banks of Dainton, Rattery and Hemerdon.

The show also illustrated how much has changed in the last forty years, both in traction and infrastructure. The likes of Newton Abbot, once a major centre with its depot and pilot engines waiting to assist trains up the banks, is now little more than a wayside station, reduced to just two through platforms and a third serving the Paignton branch.