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NATIONAL RAILWAY HERITAGE CONFERENCE

28-30 September, 2005 - Tamworth, NSW, Australia

‘Thinking Rail: Lessons from the Past, the Way of the Future’

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The Heritage Futures Research Centre of the University of New England is organising a major conference about the past, present and future of Australian railways.

Themed, “Thinking Rail: Lessons from the Past, the Way of the Future”, the conference will be forward-looking as well as historical and commemorative. It will concentrate on the important role railways have played, and ought to play, in the social and economic development of the nation.

INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE…

**Hon. Mr Tim Fischer, Chair Tourism Australia and Director Asia Pacific Transport (Freightlink) will talk about enhancing the potential of rail.

**Colin Divall, Professor of Railway Studies at the University of York and Head of the Institute of Railway Studies and Transport History, run jointly by the University and the British National Railway Museum. Professor Divall’s research embraces railway and transport history, the social history of engineering and technology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the public history of transport and technology.

**Ian Gray, Professor at the Centre for Rural Social Research, School of Humanities, Charles Sturt University. Professor Gray will present on what makes a good rail employee.

**David Morgan, President of the European Federation of Museums and Tourist Railways (FEDECRAIL) and Chairman of the Heritage Rail Association of Britain and Ireland.

**Bryan Nye, Chief Executive Officer, Australasian Railway Association Inc.

**Chris Le Marshall, Linqage International and Australasian Railway Association Inc.

**Folklorist, Warren Fahey, will present a survey of rail-related folklore and especially the songs and yarns that have been created over the past 150+ years.

**Andrew Moritz, Director, The Workshops Rail Museum “the collection, preservation and presentation of our rail heritage needs a coordinated national strategy to ensure a sustainable outcome into the future…”

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

The event will attract a diverse range of delegates from the railway industry, professionals and academics to policymakers and those in the wider community with an interest in railway heritage and a continuing railway presence. The conference is allied with the 150th anniversary of the beginning of Railways in NSW and will precede the celebrations associated with the official opening of the Australian Railway Monument (ARM) and Railway Museum at Werris Creek, NSW - 1-3 October, 2005.

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