Railway Architecture
History, research and consultancy
Dr Siobhan Osgood
I am an architectural historian specialising in nineteenth-century architecture and engineering infrastructure.
About me
I completed my PhD at Trinity College Dublin in 2023. My thesis ‘Building the Great Northern Railway: Design, Communication, Construction’ is an exploration of the processes involved in creating railway architecture.
Publications
I have been published in academic, specialist and public journals, magazines, newspapers and blog posts.
Desmond Guinness Scholarship 2021
2021
Funded research trip to Spain including archive at Museo del Ferrocarril, Madrid.
Society for Industrial Archaeology USA 2019
2019
Funded trip to conference in Chicago to give guest presentation and receive award.
Association of Industrial Archaeology UK 2016
2016
Dissertation prize for M. Phil thesis. Presented paper at annual conference and publication in their peer-reviewed journal.
“It is the peculiar privilege of the present generation to live in the times of railways, the introduction of which, rationally considered, must surely be esteemed one of the greatest blessings ever conferred on the human race.”
Whishaw, F., The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland, 1842
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