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…