The First Railway Workers

David Turner is Associate Lecturer in Railway Studies at the University Of York. In this talk he considers the careers and lives of early railway workers between 1825 and 1870, asking: Why did they join the railway? From what industries did they come? What was early railway work like?

7.45pm. Buckinghamshire Family History Society welcomes non-members (admission £2).

Community Centre, Wakeman Road, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire SL8 5SX