Talk: Edward Watkin
The Wembley Tower & the First Channel Tunnel
Amersham Museum
£10 per person (including glass of wine or soft drink)
To tie in with Railway200, the national celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the modern railway, we are hosting a railway-themed talk. Amersham Museum trustee Pete Healy will charts the story of how Edward Watkin, sometimes termed the last Railway King, brought the Metropolitan and Great Central Railways to Amersham before planning to create an Eiffel Tower beating tower at Wembley and a Channel Tunnel nearly a century before the successful one we know today.
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49 High Street
Old Amersham
Buckinghamshire
HP7 0DP
01494 723700
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