It seems every aspect of railway working was (is?) full of arcane practices. Shunting – moving wagons and carriages around to get them into the…
In the course of her research into the military railway aspects of the First World War, Sandra Gittins has already found a number of accidents…
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 this week’s post, we welcome a contribution from Pete Coveney. He was put on to us by long-time project friend and support, genealogist Jackie…
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…
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…