From Waterways to Railways 2026 Posted 31 July 2025 by 21 February 2026 10:00 am - 4:45 pm Guild contact: Alison Jones Researching the people who kept the country moving From waterways to railways: a journey through Britain's working past Booking opens 3 November 2025 Bookings close 8 February 2026 The entrance gates to the Regent's Canal at Limehouse in London, 1823 (public domain, London Museum collection, Originally produced for Thomas Hosmer Shepherd's series "Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century" (London : 1827-1830). Available through Wikimedia Commons) 09.30am for 10.00am, Saturday 21 February 2026 Programme (Subject to change) 09.30 – 10.00 Registration and refreshments 10.00 – 10.10 Alison Jones, Seminar Team - Welcome 10.10 – 11.10 Mr David Scrimgeour – Yorkshire's Watermen: Illuminating their lives through genealogy 11.10 – 11.15 Comfort break 11.15 – 12.15 Mr Chris Turland – Harwich for the Continent. The History of the railway ships 12.15 – 13.15 Lunch 13.15 – 14.15 Dr Nicholas Dixon – Lives on the Ocean Wave: Tracing the Careers of British Mariners in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 14.15 – 14.20 Comfort break 14.20 – 15.20 Dr Richard Marks - Railway History for Family Historians 15.20 – 15.45 Refreshments 15.45 – 16.45 Dr Mike Esbester – What life working on the railways was really like 16.45 Close Colonel Dane Memorial Hall, Church St, Alwalton, Peterborough PE7 3UU https://maps.google.com/maps?z=16&daddr=52.549973N,0.329136W Return to Calendar