1940s’ Home Front Wartime Weekend, Rushden, Northamptonshire Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th October 2013 is Rushden Station’s (RHTS) 1940s’ Weekend. From what we’ve heard last year’s event was very well received indeed and this year, in addition to the daytime line-up ~ steam-driven road and rail vehicles, living history displays and so on ~ […]

The only thing wrong with Sheringham’s 1940s’ weekend is that it is over for another year. However, you can carry on Fortying at The Northampton & Lamport Railway this weekend (28th & 29th September 2013). It’s worth going just to see the Home Guard. They really do look as if they’ve travelled back in time! […]

  Up there with the Twinwood Festival, Goodwood Revival, The War & Peace Show and Pickering, Sheringham’s North Norfolk Railway’s 1940s’ Weekend is so popular that Station 109 and crew are having to take lodgings in Norwich.  A one-time University of East Anglia student, I happen to know that there are one or two or […]

This weekend, 14~15th September 2013, is Stoke Bruerne’s Village at War Weekend. The only wartime vintage-themed canal festival of its kind, Stoke Bruerne is one of those 40s’ events that just gets better and better, and this year ~ the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Canal Museum ~ the organisers promise the biggest and best […]

This weekend ~ 8th & 9th June ~ it’s WICKSTEED at WAR: MILITARY VEHICLES EXHIBITORS’ STANDS TRADE STANDS SATURDAY NIGHT 1940s’ DANCE Oh, & STATION 109 would never miss the opportunity of reminding you that there is also a BEER FESTIVAL on at the same time. Last year we were so tired after all the […]