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.
By Alison Kay
Ambulance trains in 1914 “This is Christmas, and the world is supposed to be civilised”
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.
Using a model railway to explain how a combination of casual rule breaking and concentration failures led to death and destruction in a Manchester suburb.
Now that Bonfire Night and Remembrance Sunday have passed we can begin to look forward to winter, and for film buffs that means the start of awards season.
What can hobby guides and other literature tell us about the hobby, its followers and railway history itself?
We’re visited by huge numbers of families every year, and many of our youngest visitors are also our most enthusiastic.
The National Railway Museum relies on the fantastic work of volunteers—find out more about what they get up to.
Discover more about the design behind a symbol of modernity.