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…