Early Railways Conference 2021

[RichardHC]

The 7th International (virtual) Early Railways Conference takes place from 10th to 13th June 2021.

Due to COVID -19 this conference, which was due to take place at the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea, is being replaced by an International ‘virtual’ conference on the same dates (10-13 June 2021). The conference will be using Microsoft ‘Teams’ softwear.

Full details of the conference (including a list of papers to be read) which is open to all can be found on the following link;

https://rchs.org.uk/early-railways-conference-combined/

Please note that a number of the papers are of particular Welsh interest.

The conference is sponsored by: The Institution of Civil Engineers; National Railway Museum, York; Newcomen, The International Society for the History of Engineering and Technology; The Railway and Canal Historical Society and The Stephenson Locomotive Society.

[RichardHC]

Please note that the 7th Early Railway Conference (which is being held 'virtually') will commerce on 10th June 2021. Places are still available.

Full details of the conference (including a list of papers to be read) which is open to all can be found on the following link;

https://rchs.org.uk/early-railways-conference-combined/

Please note that a number of the papers are of particular Welsh interest including:

'Wrexham's Second Railway Mania'
'A Tale of Two Towns - The South Wales Railway'
'Imaging Crumlin Viaduct - Early Railways and the Stereograph'
'Was the Chester & Holyhead Railway the First Imperial Railway?'

The conference is sponsored by: The Institution of Civil Engineers; National Railway Museum, York; Newcomen, The International Society for the History of Engineering and Technology; The Railway and Canal Historical Society and The Stephenson Locomotive Society.