Our curator Bob Gwynne celebrates Chinese New Year with a look at how we came to acquire the mighty KF-7 locomotive.
A woman’s work is never done—especially not on the railways when there’s a war on.
One of the paintings in our extensive art collection gets some much-needed TLC.
How did one company get toy trains moving?
Design Manager Chris Mossop explores an artistic answer to a thorny problem for the railways.
Find out about the story behind our display of the train that took Winston Churchill on his solemn last journey.
Our volunteers recreate a railway disaster, revealing what happened on a fateful day in 1949.
We’re pleased to announce that the catalogue for our collection of Southern Railway Carriage and Wagon drawings is now live.
24 January 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill’s death. It’s often forgotten that staging the greatest state funeral since the death of Queen Victoria took years of planning.
What stories do our collections tell about railway riflemen between the wars?
There’s more than one use for a locomotive’s smokebox—Rail Operations Manager Noel Hartley explains how to whip up a festive feast on the move.
We have become familiar with images of wartime Christmas truces where fighting stopped—but this certainly wasn’t the universal experience on the Western Front 100 years ago.