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 £3 admission to meetings, £4 non-members.

At our last meeting in July before our summer break, Steve Owbridge took us on a trip through the Czech Republic, illustrated with the surprising variety of trains trains and traction to be seen there. Steve is a regular visitor to that country and has become very knowledgable about the rail scene there. A couple of Steves's photos below, preserved Hungarian Class 424 4-8-0 and a Siemens Vectron MS Class 383 in ORLEN Unipetrol Doprava livery, hauling a typical consist of petroleum tankers. 

Also below are a couple of Allen Ferguson's images from his show in May with views of North Eastern steam in the period 1963 to 1965, when many old classes were still much in evidence in the area, such as this J27 of 1906 vintage and a J72 tank, a design dating from 1898. Yet this loco was built by BR in 1951!

Also on this page by Chris Taylor, a pair of Union Pacific diesel-electric locos with one of the typically long intermodal trains to be seen 'across the pond'. And a more familiar sight by Tony Arnold of preserved 31165 as Brush Type 2 D5583 in its original green livery. This loco was introduced in 1957 with Mirrlees JVS12T 1,365 bhp engine but from 1965 the whole class were re-engined with English Electric 12SVT engines rated at 1,470 bhp.