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,…
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…
In this guest post, National Railway Museum volunteer Philip James takes us back into an era outside project coverage, and to an accident not usually…
From time to time we’ve commented on the young age of some of the people encountered in our database – for example, the case of…
How do we connect people & place in our database? Most of the time there are the obvious links: the cases our project is concerned…
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…
Railway working produced all sorts of odd terms, specific to the industry. Some of these are less obvious than others – but one which might…