2025
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Club Talk – Tuesday 4 Nov 2025 – Chatham Traction and GKE68 – Both unique – Gordon Mackley
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Club Talk – Tuesday 4 Nov 2025 – Chatham Traction and GKE68 – Both unique – Gordon Mackley Regular meetings are usually held on the first Tuesday and the second to last Thursday of each month. Meetings start at 7.45pm at: Emmanuel Baptist Church Hall, Windmill Street, Gravesend, DA12 1BB
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Simon Kohler to Open the 50th Gravesend Model Railway Show
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Simon Kohler to Open the 50th Gravesend Model Railway Show The Gravesend Railway Enthusiasts Society (GRES) is proud to present the 50th Gravesend Model Railway Show, taking place at Northfleet School for Girls, Hall Road, Northfleet, Kent DA11 8AQ on: Saturday 1 November 2025 — 10am to 5pm Sunday 2 November 2025 — 10am to…
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Club talk – Medway Aircraft Preservation Society (MAPS) by Robin Heaps Thursday 23rd October 2025
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Thursday 23rd – Robin Heaps from the Medway Aircraft Preservation Society (MAPS) will be visiting to tell us about the Society and the many projects that they have ongoing. If you visited Rochester Cathedral during August to see the restored Floatplane, that was the result of much hard work by MAPS and I’m sure Robin will tell us more…
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Club talk – Tuesday 7th October 2025 – ‘How the railways changed our lives’ by Henry Harryman
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Tuesday 7th – Henry Harryman will be taking us back two hundred years to consider how the railways changed our lives. This promises to be an interesting evening and I encourage you to join us at our usual venue of the Emmanuel Church Hall, 55 Windmill Street, Gravesend (from 7.45pm).
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Folkestone Model Railway Exhibition Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 October 2025
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Organised by Folkestone, Hythe and District Model Railway Club Venue: Leas Cliff Hall, The Leas, Folkestone, CT20 2DZ Opening Times: 10:00am – 5:00pm both days Prices Adults £8.00 Children £4.00 Family £22.00 Event Website folkestone-mrc.com
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Beckenham and West Wickham Model Railway Show Saturday 18th October 2025
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ONE DAY Beckenham Model Railshow 2025Forest Hill Boys School, Dacres Road, Forest Hill, London SE23 2XN.Saturday 18th October 2025 10am – 4:30pmBIGGER VENUE – Beckenham & West Wickham MRC are proud to announce we moved to bigger venue which will allow us to bring you more layouts (around 20), Demos and traders. The venue is…
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Whitstable Model Railway Exhibition 25th October 2025
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Not long to go now until the Whitstable Model Exhibition on Saturday 25 October, organised by the East Kent Model Railway Society. 17 layouts plus half a dozen traders to fill the halls of the Swalecliffe Community Centre, Adult admission is £5 and accompanied children under 16 are free. In addition, there will be the…
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GRES October 2025 news
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Hello Folks Having entered autumn, the warm weather appears to be over as cooler weather has arrived. I hope you’re keeping well and keeping warm.
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GRES Model Club Open Day – Saturday 18th October 2025
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The Gravesend Railway Enthusiasts Society (GRES) is delighted to invite you to our Model Club Open Day on Saturday, 18th October 2025, at Higham Memorial Hall. Doors open from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.
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ART AND THE TRAIN SUNDAY 5th OCTOBER 2025 Andrew Ashton
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ART AND THE TRAIN A talk by art historian Andrew Ashton Trains have been represented in art for nearly 200 years. This talk will look at the different ways in which railways have been portrayed over this time. Interestingly, people have very different ideas about what is a ‘good’ train painting. Trains and railways…