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*From:* Andy Guy <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
*Sent:* Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:51 PM
*Subject:* forthcoming International Early Railways Conference
If you could find space for a mention of the forthcoming Early Railways
Conference, we would be most grateful:
The 4th International Early Railways Conference will take place at
University College, London, from the 12^th to the 15^th June 2008.
Further details can be obtained from: www.early.railwayhistory.me.uk
<http://www.early.railwayhistory.me.uk/> or by writing to: ER4, 7 Onslow
Road, Richmond, Surrey TW10 6QH.
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This is the fourth in a series of highly successful International Early
Railway Conferences. This year?s has been arranged to commemorate the
200^th anniversary of the first steam locomotive for passenger,
Trevithick?s ?Catch Me Who Can?. The Conference is at University
College, London, which lies alongside the site of the locomotive?s
demonstration.
The public lecture, given by John Liffen of the Science Museum, is on
the subject of this pioneering engine and promises both the exposure of
an iconic railway image as a fake and the unveiling of a
newly-discovered picture that may take its place.
Accompanying the Conference will be an exhibition of items connected
with Richard Trevithick, including his two early models which have not
been seen together for 75 years.
A significant feature of the Conference will be proposals for a research
agenda for early railways, which may influence future directions for
research and suggest site types for archaeological investigation,
together with discussion on a possible national database of rail types.
The conference papers include a very important presentation on the
excavation of an ?Elizabethan railway? of the later 16^th century,
potentially pushing back our knowledge of railways in Britain by 30
years and introducing a new type of waggonway.
Other papers, over 20 of which will be presented, will include
discussions on:
waggonways and early steam railways in England, Wales, the Continent,
North America and South Africa, including rutways, inclines,
construction and temporary railways;
the important ?Sans Pareil? model recently added to the collection of
the NRM;
early locomotives, railway works and trackside equipment.
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