We’re pleased to be able to feature another guest contribution, from family historian Enid Rispin looking back at the railway ancestors in her family –…
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…
This week we have a guest post from Philip James, looking at another accident he transcribed as part of his role as an NRM project…
In the early 1890s a public scandal arose over the hours some railway employees worked. We might conclude that the press and MPs who took…
It seems every aspect of railway working was (is?) full of arcane practices. Shunting – moving wagons and carriages around to get them into the…
Today we are fortunate in that the idea of work-life balance exists – if only as an ideal, in many cases. People interested in understanding…
As travellers today (when we’re able to resume travelling) we may be less than enamoured of the toilets on trains – all too often cramped,…
We’re delighted that this week’s post is from a guest author, Chris Abbott. We met at the Family Tree Live event last year and he’s…
In the final part of this run of blog posts, NRM volunteer Philip James puts into context one of the cases he found when transcribing…
For some staff, getting to or from work was a matter of walking. For permanent way staff, who might be working on track many miles…