Rolt and Railways at the Brunel Institute

Name: Rolt and Railways at the Brunel Institute
Start: 2025-11-15T10:30:00+00:00
Location: Brunel's SS Great Britain

Schedule

Sat, 15 Nov, 2025 at 10:30 am

UTC+00:00

Location

Brunel's SS Great Britain | Bristol, EN

Though best known for his part in reviving Britain’s canals, LTC Rolt was also a leading figure in railway preservation and an early enthusiast of vintage racing cars. His 1955 study Red for Danger remains a standard history of railway disasters.
Rolt’s wider involvement with the railways will be the subject of this year’s Angus Buchanan Memorial Lecture, to be given by his biographer Dr Victoria Owens. An independent scholar, Dr Owens is the author of The Life of LTC Rolt – Where Engineering Met Literature (2024), the first full-length biography of Rolt, drawing on his letters and unpublished manuscripts.
Her previous books include Lady Charlotte Guest – the Exceptional Life of a Female Industrialist, shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year in 2021, as well as studies of canal and railway pioneers.
The lecture, sponsored by the Bristol Industrial Archaeological Society, takes place on Saturday morning, 15 November at the Brunel Institute, SS Great Britain, Bristol, on Gas Ferry Road.
BIAS members attend free of charge
Non members - £10 - https://buy.stripe.com/eVq14p1B1f9m2A3ad36Ri00