Our Innovation & Invention guided walk is back by popular demand for the third year running.
Join us to celebrate 200 years of the first passenger train. Leeds is directly connected to the beginnings of the railway through the Round Foundry and Matthew Murray. It was at the Round Foundry that Matthew Murray made his name as a great engineer producing steam engines and the first locomotives for the Middleton Railway.
As we meander through Leeds on foot we will see the the very first railway in the world, Middleton Railway, at the city end as it terminated near the Adelphi, as well as the very first railway station in Leeds at Marsh Lane in 1834.
Our journey will continue to the controversial Viaduct across the city and the Leeds Minster church yard.
And with an eye to the future, you will find out more about the Trans Pennine Rail upgrade and its impact on Kirkgate, the oldest street in Leeds.
The walk will end at the Cross Keys pub in Holbeck, where we invite you to join us for a drink. It was at this pub that the Leeds Digital Festival, in its current form, was founded in 2016 and where we can wish Stuart Clarke well as he finishes his ten-year tenure as director of the festival.
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