
The naming of railway locomotives has often been a deeply symbolic practice, never more so than during the First World War.
Robert Demaine is a volunteer in the National Railway Museum archive, where he researches railways and the First World War.
The naming of railway locomotives has often been a deeply symbolic practice, never more so than during the First World War.
What can our archives tell us about the realities of life for servicemen fighting in the First World War?
How did a group of Great Central Railway employees come to drown in Egypt? Our archives offer some answers.