I share to all Icohtec friends and colleagues this email of Mike Esbester about an interesting initiative at JTH (Journal of Trasport History) to celebrate the 200 years anniversary of the inauguration of the first steam-hauled passenger railways journey:
Dear all,Hope you’re well. Earlier in the year we put together a virtual collection of 17 JTH articles, focused on Britain’s railways, marking ‘Railway 200’, the 200th anniversary of the first steam-hauled passenger railway journey on the Stockton and Darlington Railway.We’ve worked with Sage to give free access to the collection over two periods – the second of which starts tomorrow, and runs 3-10 November. This coincides with the T2M conference.Do please share widely, particularly in this period when they’re free to access – we want people to read them! We’ve tried to take a broad view of the articles – whilst focusing on British railways, we’ve included international connections, for example, and considered whose voices we hear in the articles.If you are sharing on social media and other platforms, feel free to use #Railway200, which is being widely used at the moment. Also, do tag the JTH in on any channels you use where the JTH has a presence:Mike