As Remembrance Sunday approaches, Senior Library and Archive Assistant Peter Thorpe highlights how railway companies commemorated fallen railway workers.
What was life like for a young nurse on the front line of the First World War?
What was it like to work on an ambulance train during the First World War?
Discover the stories of Australian railwaymen who travelled across the world to fight.
National Railway Museum volunteers reveal how charitable movements run by ‘lady volunteers’ brought comfort to troops fighting in the First World War.
As part of the First World War Railway project here at the National Railway Museum, we are continuing to research and update the online fallen railwaymen database.
The naming of railway locomotives has often been a deeply symbolic practice, never more so than during the First World War.
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.
What can our archives tell us about the realities of life for servicemen fighting in the First World War?
What was life like for the railwaymen who served at sea during the First World War?
Discover the new stories emerging as we continue to update our list of fallen railwaymen.
How did a group of Great Central Railway employees come to drown in Egypt? Our archives offer some answers.