Shrewsbury Railway Heritage Trust
Meetings and Events in 2008
Shrewsbury Railway Heritage Trust is proud to announce their next major Exhibition entitled:
SHREWSBURY'S FABULOUS RAILWAY STATION
A 160TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION EXHIBITION
to be held at
SHREWSBURY RAILWAY STATION
from
JULY 17th to JULY 30th 2008
. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. daily [except Sundays]
Admission £1 [50p concession]
This Exhibition will be of interest to all who follow the development of Britain's railway infrastructure, past, present and future.
In addition this exhibition is a 'must see' occasion for the wide swathe of local people in the Shrewsbury and Shropshire region who work/worked for the railways, or who had/have family connections with the railways.
Visitors and tourists from the West Midlands, the North West, the South East and Wales, will be provided with a unique insight into a special part of Shrewsbury's architecture and railway heritage.
The opening of the first railway line to Chester in 1848 provided the town with its truly superb railway station. To celebrate the opening of the line and the station, the Mayor and Corporation along with invited guests, left for Chester at 10.50 a.m. in a huge train.
It comprised of 3 locomotives and 39 carriages, described by one engineer at the time as 'stretching one third of a mile'!
A Joint Station Committee drew up the plans for the station, on a site between the Castle and the County Gaol in 1847.
The Committee accepted the tender for the works from Thomas Brassey of £30,963 11s 2d.
The total cost of buying the land, raising the earthworks and building was around £100,000.
Robert Stephenson and Henry Robertson designed the track layout and signalling and Thomas K Penson, an architect from Oswestry, designed the station.
The resulting building is recognised as one of England's very finest examples of Victorian railway architecture.
During the exhibition there will be local Railway Heritage walks, talks and film shows.
As part of the Shrewsbury Station 160th anniversary celebration we are pleased to present two ILLUSTRATED TALKS about Shrewsbury Railway Station:-
Thursday 24th July: ‘Shrewsbury Station through the Ages’ - an illustrated talk by Russell Mulford AND ‘Shrewsbury Station Development Plans’ by David Koring [The County Council Rail Officer] at The Barnabas Centre, Coleham, Shrewsbury at 7.30pm. Tickets £3.00 (concessions £2.00) available from the Exhibition at the Station or at the door.
Shrewsbury Railway Heritage Trust
Revised 23rd July 2008
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