Railway 200: All to Build a Railway – in-person live song event at Locomotion

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In collaboration with the National Railway Museum’s Locomotion Museum at Shildon, we will host a free in-person live song event, open to all singers who would like to sing a song in celebration of 200 years of railways. Sunday 25 May 2025 at 1pm. The event is also open to anyone who would like to join to listen. The event will be co-hosted by Linn Phipps and Geoff Convery.

Linn’s background is in rail heavy freight and passenger, and her passion now is singing traditional songs in Gaelic and English. Geoff has worked in a variety of areas but mostly in steel and local authority IT. He was also half of a singer-songwriter duo and wrote a song about the initial construction of British railways.