WRRC Forum

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.

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.