Sophie Vohra provides an update on this project, which now includes an exhibition in Search Engine until 25 March 2023.
To mark the start of Black History Month in the UK, Assistant Director & Head Curator Andrew McLean explores the legacy of Asquith Xavier, who successfully fought to become the first black worker employed as a train guard at London Euston station in 1966.
Promotional cupcakes prompt an exploration of how railway companies have catered to changing tastes.
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.
“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.
Archivists normally hate the media describing archives as “lost” and “discovered”. My only excuse for using such tired clichés is that this collection actually was lost and discovered.
Our collections aren’t all about the past—these concept drawings and designs are all about the future.
Love it or loathe it, the provision of food by railway companies has always been an important part of the rail passenger experience.