Next week we’re heading north – sufficiently so that there aren’t any railways that feature in the project. We’re off to Shetland and Orkney, off…
June 2024 saw the 40th anniversary of the closure of Shildon Works, in County Durham. The closure, in 1984, hit Shildon hard, with the loss…
Earlier this month, Darlington’s railway museum opened in its revamped and reimagined format: Hopetown. Previously known as Head of Steam, it occupies the site of…
In the UK, the heritage railway sector is an important contributor to public engagement with the past. We benefit from widespread public interest in the…
John Cockerill William Hibbert George Buckby Richard Shillaker Thomas Shillcock Five men, at work at Manton junction and tunnel, in Rutland, on Saturday 24…
In this week’s blog post, guest author Daisy Turnbull looks at some of the challenges involved in crossing railway lines in the past. As she…
Narrating the lives and losses of young railway workers Ahead of this week’s Crewe: Your Railway, Your Family event, on Thursday 14 September as part…
Narrating the lives and losses of young railway workers The second in the occasional series relating to staff accidents at Crewe. Guest author Margaret…
This was the pronouncement from the South Western Star newspaper, on the death of London and South Western Railway (LSWR) gas fitter Ernest Browning.[1] Browning…
Our previous blog post on the Manton tunnel explosion of May 1924 explored the lives and families of those men who died, Thomas Cockerill and…