Archive collections and personal histories can help us paint a picture of life for a station master across the last century.
Delve into intriguing and unexpected finds from our extensive archive of railway records, working drawings, personal papers, photographs and more.
Some eerie photographs and amazing 3D stereo cards offer a glimpse of the London Underground in years past.
Archivist Alison Kay picks out some culinary highlights from our collection.
Archivist Alison Kay reveals how the railways kept the drinks flowing for Christmas.
How did railways help deliver Christmas on time?
We’ve just launched a new railway photos section on our main website, with over 3500 images from our gigantic photo collection. It’s only a tiny proportion of the over 1.75 million photographs we have in stores – we’re concentrating for the moment on official photos from old railway works – but we’re only just getting started. We’ll be adding many thousands more pictures over the coming months. Even better, the photos are released under a Creative Commons license: they’re free for […]
In Search Engine, our archive and library centre, we receive many thousands of enquiries each year by letter and email. We get some fascinating questions, and one recent query was quite unusual, so I thought I’d share it with you.
Steph, a volunteer on the Station Stories project, has selected some of her favourite tales that people have contributed so far.
Don’t crush—the small but important luggage label has many stories to tell.
You’ve heard of outreach, but what do our ‘Inreach’ volunteers get up to at the museum’s library and archive?
As part of our ongoing Station Stories project, we’ve been visiting different railway locations in search of stories.
Librarian Karen Baker shares an entertaining recent find from our collection.