History is always full of surprising links – including between very different types of transport.
Simon Batchelor looks into the role of railway ships at the end of the First World War.
Find out how railway ships were transformed for medical duties during the First World War.
Simon Batchelor reveals the role of railway company ships at critical points in the First World War.
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.