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In addition to the regular evening meetings, the Society runs a number of conferences, visits and social events:
- the annual Summer Meeting
- (additional Spring or Autumn Meeting - some years only)
- occasional conferences
- visits to places of interest in the UK
- an annual Social Evening
| Programme for 2008 - 2009 | |
| Thursday 11th September 2008 | Visit: Rolls Royce, Filton, Bristol |
| Wednesday 1st October 2008 | Visit: Rail Accident Investigation Branch, Derby |
| December 10th 2008 | Visit: London Archive |
| Wednesday 4th March 2009 | Visit: Museum of English Rural Life, Reading |
| Wednesday 8th April 2009 | Visit: London Canal Museum |
| Saturday 16th May 2009 | Visit: Museum of the History of Science, Oxford |
| Saturday 6th June 2009 | Visit: Whitechapel Bell Foundry |
| 29th June - 4th July 2009 | Summer Meeting in Asturias |
| Programme of visits and events for the session beginning October 2009 to be announced in due course. | |
If you are interested in any of these visits, please contact David Worth (tel: 07967 231537 or email: dave@railway42.fsnet.co.uk).
See the Visits page for more details.
Annual Summer (and Spring) Meetings
Every year we run a summer meeting - sometimes overseas - with visits, talks and social gatherings. Find out more about the programme for this year's Meetings. Past Meetings have been in such places as:
- Australia
- Bohemia
- Brabant
- Budapest
- Germany
- New England
- Northern Ireland
- Spain
- Sweden
- plus many places in Great Britain
Get the flavour of these events from the account of a recent Summer Meeting in Brabant, published in Links: the bulletin of the Newcomen Society.
Members at a famous oil mill near Eindhoven.
Visits
One-day visits are organised from London and by the branches. Find out more about our programme of forthcoming visits for this year.
In the past few years we have arranged visits to such places as:
- Chatham Dockyard
- Air Accident Investigation Branch, Farnborough
- The Falkirk Wheel
- Morwhellam Quay in Devon
- the Steam Museum at Kew
- disused underground stations
- Astrium Space Company
- a P&O container ship in Southampton
- the Walsall Leather Museum
- Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter
Ship and railway at Morwellham Quay
Conferences
The Society runs conferences, sometimes in conjunction with other national and international bodies. Find out more about forthcoming conferences.
Previous conferences have been on such subjects as:
- Thomas Newcomen
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- Thomas Tredgold
- Aspects of Technological Change 1900-1939
- Scottish engineers and engineering
- George Stephenson
- Babbage and Faraday
- André Chapelon
- Sir Charles Parsons
Social evening
In recent years we have organised a social evening in February, at the Artworkers Guild in London. Find out more.
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