1847 and the first railway route to Scotland
Ray Schofield
- Region:
- London
- Notice Period:
- Short (maybe less than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Hobby
- Fee:
- Unknown
- Category:
- Travel
- Updated:
- 31st December 2025
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2027 will see the 180th anniversay of the first London to Scotland rail service which was just a solitary coach attached to various trains of the railways making up the route.
Ray traces this route through his own preservation era photos and other obtained images where appropriate.
Prior to the 1847 route, the journey from London to Scotland entailed a tedious and exhausting 9-day horse & coach ride or later, a 3-day bucketing costal boat sailing. The very first part-rail journey was hybrid by train to Liverpool and the boat to Ardossen but in 1847 it became possible to travel from Euston via York and Newcastle to Edinburgh & Glasgow over 2 days of relatively better comfort. There was still some horse & Coach travel but only over the Tyne and Tweed where bridges had then not been constructed.
The illustrating picture shows a train in the preservation era on a peice of the 1847 route at Goose Hill Junction Normanton on a peice of track no longer there.
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Retired Chartered Engineer who has undertaken tour management for UK worldwide rail travel company. Widely travelled, much of which is independent, around the 5 continents of the world plus Aus and NZ. Visited parts that most others haven’t e.g., North Korea, Pakistan, Eritrea, Paraguay, Syria .......
Talks are generally associated with trains (mostly nostalgic steam) the railways themselves and associated historical aspects. Most talks were planned for railway interest groups but can be tailored to audience, whether knowledgeable on rail subjects or not and using both Ray's own photo material and other sourced images.
Presentations will be in digital format and in Power Point format.
Other Talks on SpeakerNet by Ray Schofield
- Action & Articulation - the story of articulated steam locomotives
- North of the bordr from the Tweed to Thurso
- The Great Northern Railway, King's Cross Station & Sir Nigel Gresley
- The Great Central Railway - Rapid Travel in Luxury
- From Carlisle to Kittybrewster (that's in Aberdeen)
- North of the Border: From Canal to Craigellachie
- GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY – ‘’rarely other than idiosyncratic’’
- Calgary to Kamloops and more by rail
- From Welllington to Wakatipu and north to Aukland too
- Ray's book - Locomotive Sheds of the Great Central Railway and the CLC
- The NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY from the Stockton & Darlington Rly to the East Coast Main Line
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