Two lines originally thought to have been built around one year apart fight it out for the claim to be the ‘first’ British railway - this po...

One of the questions I frequently get asked as a railway historian is “do you ever watch the Michael Portillo show? You know, the one whe...

It has been proclaimed in many places, at many times that before 1914 a job on the railway was a job for life.   Railway workers' career...

Recently I have been doing some work on how the railways of Britain influence the development of organised sport  before 1914 and most of my...

One of the features of the late Victorian British railway industry was competition, with railways in all parts of the nation trying to out-p...

Every now and again, when I go looking for such things, I find cases where Victorian engine drivers got drunk and then proceeded to operate ...

I am sure from the very earliest days of the railways passengers must have done work on the train. It is, some might say, a tradition of t...