11 October 2018
Colchester

This full-day lecture and tour will be held at the East Anglian Railway Museum at Chappel Railway Station in Colchester. The course is aimed at professionals working with historic station buildings and anyone interested in our historic railway buildings and infrastructure.

The day will commence with two talks about the history and development of the English Railway Station. A lunch will be provided and this will be followed with a guided tour of the East Anglian Railway Museum, including the station building, the signal box and the train sheds.

The course will be led by Professor Steven Parissien, Visiting Professor of Architectural History and Visual Culture at Coventry University and Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford. Steven has written extensively on architectural and cultural history with a number of his publications forming baseline references for some of England’s most significant building typologies. Steven is the author of English Heritage’s 2014 publication TheEnglish Railway Station, which traces how the station evolved into a recognisable building type, examines the great cathedrals and the evocative country stations of the Victorian era, and looks at how the railway station has, over the last fifty years, regained its place at the heart of our communities.

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