Commonwealth Heritage Forum
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FeaturedRailways and the Raj [Commonwealth Heritage Forum event]
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomWednesday 8 November, 6pm GMT: Christian Wolmar, ‘Railways and the Raj’, chaired by Pat Green India joined the railway age late: the first line was not completed until 1853 but, by 1929, 41,000 miles of track served the country. However, the creation of this vast network was not intended to modernise India for the sake of…
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FeaturedRailways at the dawn of the Commonwealth [Commonwealth Heritage Forum event]
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomWednesday 15 November, 6pm GMT, Dr Oliver Betts: ‘Railways at the dawn of the Commonwealth', chaired by Francis Maude Railways in Britain were reaching their zenith as the Commonwealth of Nations took shape. During the previous century Britain's railway industry had spread across its Empire and into the informal empire of British influence and capital too. For British…
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FeaturedThe Barbados Trailway Project [Commonwealth Heritage Forum event]
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomWednesday 22 November, 6pm GMT, Dr Tara Inniss: ‘The Barbados Trailway Project: 21st Century Transformation of a Colonial Era Railway in the Caribbean’, chaired by Rachel Tranter The Barbados Railway was operational from 1881-1937. Like many colonial era railways established throughout Britain's empire in the nineteenth century it was fraught with funding and infrastructural challenges from the…
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FeaturedRefurbishment of the old Railway Bridges at Rail Corridor Singapore [Commonwealth Heritage Forum event]
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomWednesday 29 November, 1pm GMT, Wong Kia Fu: ‘Refurbishment of the old Railway Bridges at Rail Corridor Singapore', chaired by Kelvin Ang In 2011, the former Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) railway line ceased operations at the Tanjong Pager and Bukit Timah stations and the land was returned to Singapore. This presented an extraordinary opportunity to reimagine how…
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FeaturedLeeds Engines of Empire [Commonwealth Heritage Forum event]
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomWednesday 6 December, 6pm GMT: John McGoldrick, ‘Leeds Engines of Empire’, chaired by Rowenna Malone The city of Leeds is perhaps not as well-known as it should be as an industrial powerhouse. A major engine of the city’s prosperity was the railway locomotive building sector. Exports to former British and other colonies filled company order books…
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FeaturedDa train fo Bo …. [Commonwealth Heritage Forum event]
Virtual Meeting Virtual Meeting, United KingdomWednesday 13 December, 6pm GMT: Helen Ashby and Colonel Steve Davies, ‘Da train fo Bo ….’, chaired by Isatu Smith Helen was Head of Knowledge and Collections at the National Railway Museum and is now a freelance heritage consultant. She was awarded the OBE for services to railway heritage in 2010 and in 2014 she helped set…