Telford training courses and certification

Telford is the largest town in Shropshire and one of the fastest-growing towns in the United Kingdom. It is named after Shropshire civil engineer Thomas Telford, who designed several roads, canal, and rail constructions. The town was built as a new town in the 1960s and 1970s on previously industrial and agricultural land and communities. Telford, like other planned towns of the time, was formed through the amalgamation of several townships and towns, most notably Wellington, Oakengates, Madeley, and Dawley.

Telford lies near the M54 motorway junction, a leg of the M6 connecting the city with Wolverhampton and the West Midlands, and the A5 highway connecting Shrewsbury and Cannock.

Rail

Telford Central railway station is located on the Shrewsbury-Wolverhampton Line. Oakengates and Wellington railway stations are also on the same line. All three stations are served by Arriva Trains Wales, West Midlands Railway, and Avanti West Coast trains.

Bus

The majority of bus services in Telford are operated by Arriva Midlands from its Stafford Park garage, which replaced the former Midland Red facility in Wellington. Banga Bus provides route 891 between Wolverhampton and Shifnal via Shifnal and Tettenhall, replacing the old Midland Red service, which was eventually taken over by Arriva Midlands.

The business district of Telford, Telford Town Centre, is situated off Junction 5 of the M54 motorway, which was built in the 1980s. It is the administrative headquarters of Telford & Wrekin Council, which relocated from the former Civic Offices (from the mid-1970s) to Addenbrook House on Ironmasters Way in December 2012. Telford Shopping Centre (and Town Park), various business buildings, including the blue office towers (Telford Plaza), and the Windsor Life skyscraper.

One of the most popular people in Telford, Sarah Smith (27 July 1832 – 8 October 1911) was a Christian novelist for children who wrote under the pen name Hesba Stretton. By the late nineteenth century, Jessica’s First Prayer had sold a million and a half copies, 10 times more than Alice in Wonderland.

Paul Blackthorne was born on March 5, 1969, in London, England. Blackthorne began his career in acting through television commercials in England. His breakthrough commercial in the United Kingdom was the extremely popular Grim Reaper advertisement for Virgin Atlantic. A flurry of radio commercials followed.

Edith Mary Pargeter OBE BEM (28 September 1913 – 14 October 1995) was an English author who specialised in history and historical fiction under the pen name Ellis Peters. She was best known for her translations of Czech classics. Her historical and contemporary murder mysteries, notably her medieval detective series The Cadfael Chronicles, are undoubtedly her most well-known works.

Sports

Telford has a number of talented amateur, semi-professional, and professional sports clubs that represents the community, one of the well-known is the Telford United F.C. The club dissolved owing to financial troubles between 1969 and 2004 and was resurrected the same year as AFC Telford United. The New Bucks Head, AFC Telford United’s home field, served as the venue for home matches played by Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.’s under-23 squad between 2004 and 2020.

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