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Which Borough Market are we dealing with?

https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/which-borough-market-are-we-dealing-with/
By Russell Hollowood

…the archives (that came from BR Southern region in 1976) it was built???? It does not say. In fact, the more you look, the more you find the information is…

Slow Train to Switzerland

https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/slow-train-to-switzerland/
By Diccon Bewes

…that in 1850 the Swiss government invited Robert Stephenson to design a new national rail network (which is why Swiss trains still run on the left). In the Cook archives

Researching the trainspotters

https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/researching-the-trainspotters/
By Amy Banks

…British Railways ‘To Loco Spotters’ poster from 1953. NRM archives object 1998 – 10828 This British Railways poster sets out some rules to make sure that spotters were safe on…

Builders of Locomotives to the World’s Railways

https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/10179-2/
By Tania Parker

Tania Parker, Search Engine assistant at the National Railway Museum, unearths insights from the archive’s collections of private railway manufacturers. Over recent months I have been cataloguing the National Railway…

Work and Play on a First World War Ambulance Train

https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/work-and-play-on-a-first-world-war-ambulance-train/
By Alison Kay

…experiences of a voluntary unit in France. 1915-1919 Archives held within Leeds University’s Liddle Collection, The Imperial War Museum and The Library of the Religious Society of Friends document horrific…

Discovering my family history

https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/discovering-my-family-history/
By Ellen Tait

…to research the railway archives, so that I can keep the memory of my forgotten Uncle Edward and his family alive. Have you been researching your railway ancestors, if so…

Parliamentary papers and Railway Mania

https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/parliamentary-papers-and-railway-mania/
By Peter Thorpe

In the archives with the Parliamentary papers I’ve recently started working as the project cataloguer for the newly-acquired collection of parliamentary papers and I’ll be adding each individual paper and…

Bringing Churchill’s Final Journey to life

https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/churchills-final-journey/
By Jamie Taylor

…tell the story of this historic day. I began my research by looking through photos of the funeral train from our archives. Many of these photos include scores of people…

Discovering the First World War through our archive

https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/discovering-first-world-war-schools/
By Claire Marston

…build-up of gas on the clothes caused the medical staff to be exposed to it too. The inside of an Ambulance Carriage (photo from National Railway Museum archives) The students…

Early Victorian Railway Excursions: ‘The Million Go Forth’

https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/early-victorian-railway-excursions-the-million-go-forth/
By Susan Major

…obliged to travel eighty-five miles on a wet night, exposed to all the inclemency of the weather. (York Herald, 27 September 1856) From our archives – examples of excursion hand…

Named locomotives in the First World War

https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/named-locomotives-in-the-first-world-war/
By Robert Demaine

…Museum archives) Railway companies also attempted to do their patriotic duty in the naming of newly built locomotives. A series of ten ‘Prince of Wales’ class locomotives built by the…

Inside our film collection: looking for nitrate film

https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/inside-our-film-collection-nitrate/
By Angelique Bonamy

archives today. In comparison, because of the vinegar syndrome, acetate films are not behaving so well. When it comes to polyester, it could theoretically last for 1000 years. The part…