14.00 Wednesday 10th November 2004
Aspects of railways in Sweden and the Soviet Union

Fredrik Andersson (Umea University, Sweden)
A coastal railway at all costs: regional railway promotion in northern Sweden 1900-2000

Tony Heywood (Bradford University)
Iu.V. Lomonosov and the birth of mainline diesel traction in the 1920s.


14.00 Wednesday 1st December 2004
Railway locomotive manufacturing in Britain

David Boughey (University of the West of England)
American competition and the standardization movement in the British locomotive industry

Phil Atkins (National Railway Museum)
A peculiar British practice: do-it-yourself locomotive building


14.00 Wednesday 26th January 2005
Inland navigation in the C18th and C21st

George Revill (Open University)
The River Trent: representation, management, transport and history in a mobile landscape

Mike Anson (Bank of England Official History Project)
Moving goods to moving people: the development of the modern leisure waterway


14.00 Wednesday 16th February 2005
Twentieth-Century public policy compared: motorized-bus transport in the UK and the USA

This seminar has been cancelled because of industrial action at the National Railway Museum. Sorry.

Corrine Mulley (University of Newcastle) & Maggie Walsh (University of Nottingham)
Part 1 The years to World War Two
Part 2 The years after World War Two


14.00 Wednesday 9th March 2005
The nationalized versus the privatized railway in Britain

Richard Davies
British Railways 1984-1994

Ernest Godward (Scott Wilson Railways)
The privatized railway 1994-2004


14.00 Wednesday 4th May 2005
Gendered transport

Jane Neal-Smith (London Guildhall University)
Pink Skies: The history and experiences of commercial women pilots

Grace Lees-Maffei (University of Hertfordshire)
"See 500 Sexy Models Reveal All": advertising cars to women


14.00 Wednesday 1st June 2005
Imperial railways, railway imperialism

Owing to a change of job, Gary Goldfinch will not be presenting his paper on Egypt and the global economy: railways and commerce in the 19th century.

Colin Divall (IRS&TH)
Railway imperialisms, railway nationalisms 1850-1975

Di Drummond (Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds)
Railway development and British imperialism: cultures of dominant technology?



All welcome. Refreshments will be served.

Please note All workshops are held in the Yorkshire Rail Academy at the National Railway Museum, York, UK. The YRA is fully accessible and may be reached from within The Warehouse at the NRM, off the Great Hall. The YRA is not open to the general public - you will need to use the entryphone to get into the YRA. Please do not enter the YRA more than 10 minutes before the advertised starting time. Ask at the Museum's welcome desks or any information point if you need help.

The National Railway Museum is about 3 minutes' walk from York railway station via the new footbridge extension. Please use either public entrance to the NRM and tell the staff at the desk that you are attending the IRS&TH workshops. Cycle parking is available at the City Entrance. Motorists please note that NRM parking charges apply (except for registered-disabled parking, available at the City Entrance).