IRRS London

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6pm on Friday, super slides and a acknowledgeable speaker. If you're near London, come and be there - without live meetings, the London Area will die!

But if you're miles away - tune in - details below!

LIVE + ZOOM : 18.00 – 20.40 Friday 5 December 2025 18.00 “Last days of the Irish narrow gauge – through the lens of David Soggee” by Joe Begley  20.00 London Area AGM David Soggee was a much travelled enthusiast with renowned camera skills. A vast collection of his colour slides bequeathed to the IRRS show a preference for branch lines and smaller railways. On three visits to Ireland in 1959 and 1960, he travelled on the last three remaining Irish narrow gauge railways, the C&L, CDRJC and West Clare lines. Joe Begley shows images from these visits which present a vivid snapshot of these lines as they moved towards the end of their working lives.

 

COME TO OUR LIVE MEETING ….. ….. at The Gallery at Alan Baxter, 100m from Farringdon station. Door opens at 17.30. The Gallery is a smart and spacious community space, ideal for our talks, and with stepfree access available. We hope as many as possible will be able to come along, see the speaker live, contribute directly to the discussion, meet the Committee and other members, and enjoy refreshment in a nearby pub afterwards. Advice for those attending the live meeting, including directions to the venue, is attached

 

ATTENDING BY ZOOM To obtain a Zoom link for the meeting, please register by clicking   REGISTER HERE   and fill in your name and email address to be sent a personalised Zoom ink. You can register at any time up to (or during) the meeting, and you can copy this registration link to others. Please note that the link will be sent by Zoom(not IRRS London) and will arrive immediately after registration. Those who have registered should also receive a reminder from Zoom nearer the meeting.   Alternatively, open Zoom on your device and enter the following : Webinar ID: 848 9043 3111 passcode: 126948    For those participating in the meeting via Zoom, please note that should Zoom fail and there is no transmission, we will try and email everyone on the London Area email list with an update so please watch your Inbox

 

LIVE MEETINGS - PLEASE COME We invited more people to come to our live meetings and were very pleased with the attendance for Roger Joanes’ talk on 21st November. Please try and attend our live meetings when you can as, to encourage the speaker and add to the atmosphere in the room.

 

DONATIONS TO THE IRRS (LONDON AREA) We invite voluntary donations to support the IRRS (London Area) from those of you who watch our meetings online and who do not have an opportunity to otherwise contribute. The London Area needs to raise funds to cover inter alia the day-to-day running of the Area, our publicity, publishing Irish railway books, and safeguarding, referencing and digitising significant Irish railway collections given to us.    If you would like to support our activities, please go to www.irrs.ie , click on Branches > London and then the Donations tab. We suggest £3/meeting or you may prefer to make a single donation to cover the whole season. The exact sum is at your discretion. Payment is by GooglePay, credit or debit card. You do not need to register or set up a Square account.   Please note that Square accepts payments in sterling only and as the IRRS is a Limited Liability Company, donations are not eligible for UK Gift Aid. Payments can be made from credit cards based in other currencies subject to the usual charge made by many card companies and banks for foreign transaction handling and currency conversion.