Reprieve for Victorian Wolverton Works buildings
Oct 02, 2020
3 minutes
By Phil Marsh
PHIL MARSH
PHIL MARSH
“If the battery propulsion project comes to fruition, Wolverton will return to its past when it was a world leader in rail battery development, 125 years ago in Victorian times. “
THE threat of demolition facing all the classic Victorian buildings at Wolverton Works appears to have been lifted by the current owner.
The works was opened in Wolverton in Buckinghamshire by Robert Stephenson’s London & Birmingham Railway in September 1838, at the midpoint of the 112-mile route. The new towns of Wolverton and New
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