Simon Jenkins on British Railway Stations
Thursday 19th October 2017
St Swithin's Church, The Paragon, Bath, BA1 5LY
8pm
It is the location of all our hopeful beginnings and intended ends; an institution with its own rituals and priests; and a long-neglected aspect of our nation’s architecture: the railway station. Renowned historian Simon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of the country to select this joyous celebration of our social history.
With his usual insight and authority, he describes the history, geography, design and significance of each of these glories; explores their role in the national imagination; champions the engineers, architects and rival companies that made them possible; and tells the story behind the development, triumphs and follies of these very British creations. From Waterloo to Whitby, St Pancras to Stirling, these are the marvellous, often undersung places that link our nation. All aboard!