…the age of 90, although it was never published. The collection was catalogued and the blog written by Robert Hillman, a student on the Master of Archives and Records Management…
…from the RHC in 2013. RHDAB ensures a future for railway heritage by designating railway-related items. Locomotives, paintings, archives, furniture and more are all in scope for designation. The Board…
…current industry regulator) and The National Archives, to do with bringing new records into our coverage. We will be looking for volunteers to help with this, so let us know…
…could have easily remained either lost through the pages of newspapers, sat idle in reel cans, or waiting on digital archives to be seen. A wonderful (and unexpected) discovery during…
One of the most unusual photographic collections in the National Railway Museum’s archives which I’ve come across as a volunteer cataloguer is one by Ellis Kelsey, an amateur photographer who…
…weren’t suitable to include in Transcription Tuesday. We’re continuing our work with an onsite volunteer team at The National Archives in London. They’re working on accident records that the railway…
…paper and cardboard boxes were consolidated with Japanese tissue paper and wheat starch. The books are now stored in a controlled environment in the museum Archives, where they will be…
The National Railway Museum’s photographic archives include a large collection of about 890 images by Humphrey Household (1906-1986), who photographed many types of trains and railways all over the country…
…on future seminars, sign up to our Archives and Behind the Scenes newsletter. November 2018 The first talk was given by Dr Nicola Kirkby of Kings College, London, entitled The…
This is another set of photographs from the Humphrey Household collection in the National Railway Museum’s archives. Household’s special interest in minor, narrow-gauge and industrial railways led him to go…
…find additional space in our archives to accommodate physical items, as every year the timetable was occupying an extra archive box. We do also continue to collect the digital versions,…
…permitted the large influx of migrant workers from British India. By March 1901, the number of Asian ‘coolies’ employed to build the railway reached a peak of nearly 20,000. Of…