Our staff and volunteers reveal their favourite images from our vast photography collection.
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 […]
Love it or loathe it, the provision of food by railway companies has always been an important part of the rail passenger experience.
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.
You’ve probably seen an object like this on a station platform – but what’s it for?
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?
The Station Stories project ventures further afield—and enlists the help of some young volunteers.
As part of our ongoing Station Stories project, we’ve been visiting different railway locations in search of stories.
Go behind the scenes at the museum’s conservation workshop and find out how we restored a very well-worn railway object.