Sunday, October 12

Afternoon Poems: The Romance of the Railways

Name: Afternoon Poems: The Romance of the Railways
Start: 2025-10-12T14:15:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-12T15:15:00+01:00
Location: Keats House

By Keats House

FREE reading of famous railway poems to celebrate the first passenger railway journey from Darlington to Stockton on 27 September 1825!

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Keats House

10 Keats Grove London NW3 2RR United Kingdom

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1 hour
In person
Doors at 2:00 PM

About this event

Arts • Literary Arts

Travel back to the world of Agatha Christie and steam trains, with this reading of railway poems from the 1880s to the 1930s! The event will take place in the romantic surroundings of Keats House.

Read by Keats House Poetry Ambassadors

Image: First Class. The Meeting, by Abraham Soloman, 1854. Oil on canvas.

Image credit: The National Galleries of Canada

ALT text: A young woman in Victorian dress talking to a young man in a railway carriage, sitting next to an older chaparone who is asleep.

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Keats House

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