Passengers & Pioneers launch

Name: Passengers & Pioneers launch
Start: 2025-03-14T12:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-14T20:30:00+00:00
Location: The Common Room of the Great North

Schedule

Fri Mar 14 2025 at 12:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

The Common Room of the Great North | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN

You are warmly invited to attend the launch of a new album of songs and poems celebrating 200 years of passenger travel.
‘Passengers & Pioneers’ by singer-songwriter Sam Slatcher along with award winning North East poets, celebrates the birth of the Stockton & Darlington Railway and what it means to us today in the 200th anniversary year. The album incorporates stories of passengers travelling today and archive history from the first journey in 1825.
This event is free of charge and will run twice:
- 12:00-13:00 - feat. Lizzie Lovejoy
- 19:30-20:30 - feat. Harry Gallagher
Taking place in The Common Room Lecture Hall, a 2 minute walk from Newcastle Central Station.
The Common Room, Neville Hall, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1SE https://thecommonroom.org.uk/
Booking is highly recommended as limited seating: https://thecommonroom.org.uk/event/passengers/
The album comes out of a series of artist residencies on the Bishop Auckland to Saltburn line commissioned by the Bishop Line Community Rail Partnership with funding from Northern, Cross Country and Community Rail Network.