Day School: Transport in Victorian and Edwardian W Mids

Transport in Victorian and Edwardian West Midlands

A Day School at the Birmingham & Midland Institute

9 Margaret Street, Birmingham, B3 3BU

Saturday 1st November 2025 10.15 am - 4.15pm

£40 including lunch & all refreshments

The Victorian and Edwardian era was a time of new and rapidly developing transport systems and designs which affected day to day life for everyone in the West Midlands.

Jim Ranaham will introduce our day’s programme with an overview of transport development and availability during the Victorian and Edwardian period. Professor Felix Schid will then give us an eyewitness account of the early days of the first London to Birmingham railway. Our programme continues with Dr Nathan Carden examining the growing interest in and development of cycling. Phil Wild BCNS Archivist, will focus on the use of canals. Tim Bridges our Conservation Caseworker will bring the programme to an end by showing us how Wolverhampton Low Level railway station was saved and repurposed..

The cost includes tea/coffee at registration available from 9.45 a.m., tea/coffee mid-morning and a buffet lunch also with refreshments. Our buffets always have plenty of vegetarian options but please notify us if you have any other specific dietary requirements.

Queries/bookings to Helene Pursey . Tel: 0121 449 5186

Cost: £40 with reduced rate of £25 for full time students & Young Victorians.

Host or Publisher The Victorian Society, Birmingham & West Midlands