Holidays were odd times for the railways. Many services – particularly goods – kept moving, so at least some staff were still at work. Yet…
Railway station ticket offices in the UK are in the news at the moment. Unfortunately, it’s not for good reasons. Under current proposals from the…
We’re delighted to feature this blog post from a team at the Head of Steam – Darlington Railway Museum. It focuses on a topic of…
Our project is documenting the many risks incidental to railway working – including at times animal dangers. We’ll be coming back to the more usual…
So far our project has focused on what we’d understand as ‘mainline’ railways. That’s been a product of the sources available to us. It means…
In this week’s post, guest author Rob Langham takes us back almost to birth of the railway age in England – a time when railways…
It seems every aspect of railway working was (is?) full of arcane practices. Shunting – moving wagons and carriages around to get them into the…
Earlier this year we put out a call on Twitter to see if anyone would like to write a guest blog post – this kind…
As we’ve noted in the past, the railway companies didn’t just run trains – their interests extended much further. As a result, they employed all…