Event: British Rail: A New History – Christian Wolmar
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Start Date: 03.11.2023. Start Time: 19:45
End Date: 03.11.2023. End Time: 22:00
Location: The Manor, Slough Railway Station, Brunel Way, Slough
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British Rail: A New History – Christian Wolmar
Award-winning writer and broadcaster Christian Wolmar will be presenting an evening based on his latest book: the authoritative and enthralling history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail.
From its creation after the Second World War, through its fifty-year lifetime, British Rail was an innovative powerhouse that transformed our transport system. Uniting disparate lines into a highly competent organisation – heralding 'The Age of the Train' – and, for a time, providing one of the fastest regular rail services in the world.
Born into post-war austerity, traumatised, impoverished and exploited by a hostile press, the state-owned railway was dismissed as a dinosaur unable to evolve, and swept away by a government hell-bent on selling it off.
Now, award-winning writer Christian Wolmar provides a new perspective on national loss in a time of privatisation. British Rail is ripe for a new history.
All are welcome.
See you there!
Please see website (swrs.co.uk) for location and further information, including parking charges at the station car park.
Remember that The Manor is easy to reach by train or bus, and is but a short walk from the town centre car parks.
British Rail: A New History – Christian Wolmar
Award-winning writer and broadcaster Christian Wolmar will be presenting an evening based on his latest book: the authoritative and enthralling history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail.
From its creation after the Second World War, through its fifty-year lifetime, British Rail was an innovative powerhouse that transformed our transport system. Uniting disparate lines into a highly competent organisation – heralding 'The Age of the Train' – and, for a time, providing one of the fastest regular rail services in the world.
Born into post-war austerity, traumatised, impoverished and exploited by a hostile press, the state-owned railway was dismissed as a dinosaur unable to evolve, and swept away by a government hell-bent on selling it off.
Now, award-winning writer Christian Wolmar provides a new perspective on national loss in a time of privatisation. British Rail is ripe for a new history.
All are welcome.
See you there!
Please see website (swrs.co.uk) for location and further information, including parking charges at the station car park.
Remember that The Manor is easy to reach by train or bus, and is but a short walk from the town centre car parks.
