This is a recording of a talk called Buildings in Motion: The Reuse of Railway Structures, by Simon which was recorded on 22nd Nov 2023.
This talk is part of the Online Autumn Talk Series 2023 called Railway Architecture and Society in the Victorian Society. Follow this link to book all of the talks.
Britain’s preserved railways have helped to secure the future of many Victorian station buildings, along with numerous other distinctive structures from the age of steam, such as signal boxes, goods sheds and footbridges. More than this, they have given new homes and uses to a wealth of other structures that would otherwise have been lost.
An exploration of the preservation world reveals some of the challenges and rewards of keeping these buildings in active use. Along the way we meet some old friends, including the footbridge formerly inside the train shed at Kings Cross and the old Rewley Road terminus from Oxford, a precious survival of Sir Joseph Paxton’s modular system of prefabricated iron and timber, as used famously at the Crystal Palace.
Simon Bradley is series editor of the Pevsner Architectural Guides. He has a longstanding interest in Britain’s railways and their history, and is author of The Railways: Nation, Network and People (2015).
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