Early Victorian Railway Excursions: ‘The Million Go Forth’
Terrible conditions weren’t enough to put off adventurous working class travellers on the early railways. What were those journeys like?
Discovering the First World War through our archive
Learning through our fantastic archive doesn’t only happen in the museum – we’ve also been out and about visiting schools to talk about the First World War.
Films from our archive at the 2015 Aesthetica Short Film Festival
Cinema has been closely connected to the railways since its earliest days—as the films in our archive show.
Eccentric Engineering: discoveries in railway technology
Like all modern technologies, the railways have come a long way from their origins.
Tobacco and comforts for wounded railwaymen
What can our archives tell us about the realities of life for servicemen fighting in the First World War?
An early railway disaster in the parliamentary papers
How did the Parliamentary Papers in our archives inform safety standard during the period of railway mania?
“Old Morality” and the rise of recreational reading
We recently acquired some interesting publications from W.H. Smith & Son. You may wonder why as, on the face of it, the railway connection is rather tangential.
Parliamentary papers and Railway Mania
We recently acquired a set of parliamentary papers covering the years 1837 up 1906. How will we begin to catalogue them?
Great War Railwaymen and the Sinking of the Aragon
How did a group of Great Central Railway employees come to drown in Egypt? Our archives offer some answers.
Bringing Churchill’s Final Journey to life
Images from our archive help to recreate a momentous day from history.
Southern C&W Goes Live
We’re pleased to announce that the catalogue for our collection of Southern Railway Carriage and Wagon drawings is now live.
Remember these? How would you track the modern railway industry?
“It’s been like trying to untangle a ball of string with lots of different stands”: our volunteers have been hard at work creating railway company biographies to aid researchers.