It seems every aspect of railway working was (is?) full of arcane practices. Shunting – moving wagons and carriages around to get them into the…
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…
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…
After many years of concern, the 1902 Prevention of Accidents Rules introduced several measures to improve railway worker safety. One was the requirement to cover…