Our 2024 AGM & Conference will be held on Saturday 22 June in the Crown Church, Inverness, starting at 11:00 with the AGM for members, followed by the Conference, which is open to the public, at 11:45.

We have three main speakers this year:

Robert Gardner, a Chartered Engineer in telecommunications, who will talk about high-speed broadband on trains using low orbit satellites; Anthony Smith, until recently the Chief Executive of Transport Focus and Roger French OBE, erstwhile Managing Director of Brighton & Hove Buses, but since retirement the writer of a very entertaining and informative blog about his travels all over the UK by public transport.

We will also hear from Mark Ilderton, ScotRail's interim Service Delivery Director, and Frank Roach of HITRANS, who needs no introduction!

Crown Church is named after the hill district south of the city centre and railway station.

Directions for walking from Inverness Station:

• Leave the railway station by the gate reached by turning left immediately after passing through the ticket barriers and keep straight ahead into Falcon Square keeping the Eastgate Retail Centre buildings on your left.
• Enter the complex from Falcon Square and take the escalator or stairs up to the first floor level.
• Continue past Waterstones and join the main mall opposite HMV.
• Cross the main mall diagonally to the stairs and lifts.
• Go up one floor to the top [Floors 4 to 5 if you use the lift].
• Turn left past the toilets and go out on to the pedestrian bridge.
• Turn left onto Stephen's Brae [You are already more than half way up]
• Continue past Velocity bike shop and café and you will see the church ahead.
• Go up to the junction and go across the pedestrian crossing.
• You will see the Midmills Door to the Church slightly to the left ahead of you.
• Go in to the porch and take the door to the left which brings you to the stairs.
• The meeting is upstairs.
• If you wish to use the lift, take the door straight ahead out of the porch. The lift is on your left halfway along the corridor.