Adventures with the Permanent Way and Pagodas in mysterious Burma
Ray Schofield
- Region:
- London
- Notice Period:
- Short (maybe less than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Hobby
- Fee:
- Unknown
- Category:
- Travel
- Updated:
- 6th January 2026
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A presentation equally suitable for a general purpose audience or a railway group. In the mid 1990s, when the work-a-day steam locomotive was in terminal decline throughout the world, a couple of pockets of steam locomotive operation were known to exist in secretive Myanmar (the former British colony of Burma). Ray obtained a visa, flew to Yangon (formerly Rangoon) to investigate. Everything was done on the hoof, travelling with the crew on freight trains and befrending the armed guard on passenger workings all with a view to adventure, stopping the train for photos whilst also visiting a a number of eye-watering pagodas. A one hour presentation which can be extended to 2 hours by adding railway adventures in Thailand in advance of the Burma visit.
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Retired Chartered Engineer who has undertaken tour management for UK worldwide rail travel company. Widely travelled, much of which is independent, around the 5 continents of the world plus Aus and NZ. Visited parts that most others haven’t e.g., North Korea, Pakistan, Eritrea, Paraguay, Syria .......
Talks are generally associated with trains (mostly nostalgic steam) the railways themselves and associated historical aspects. Most talks were planned for railway interest groups but can be tailored to audience, whether knowledgeable on rail subjects or not and using both Ray's own photo material and other sourced images.
Presentations will be in digital format and in Power Point format.
Other Talks on SpeakerNet by Ray Schofield
- Action & Articulation - the story of articulated steam locomotives
- North of the bordr from the Tweed to Thurso
- The Great Northern Railway, King's Cross Station & Sir Nigel Gresley
- The Great Central Railway - Rapid Travel in Luxury
- From Carlisle to Kittybrewster (that's in Aberdeen)
- North of the Border: From Canal to Craigellachie
- GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY – ‘’rarely other than idiosyncratic’’
- Calgary to Kamloops and more by rail
- From Welllington to Wakatipu and north to Aukland too
- Ray's book - Locomotive Sheds of the Great Central Railway and the CLC
- The NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY from the Stockton & Darlington Rly to the East Coast Main Line
- 1847 and the first railway route to Scotland
- Darjeeling Delights and more – Narrow gauge steam operated railways in the Indian Sub-Continent
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