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 have today deleted one post from Turnip Rail because, well, I don't agree with it. The post, written in 2010, was on the topic of the ...

Euphemia Penman was a remarkable woman who rose to become one of the most respected managers in the emergent tram systems of late-Victorian ...

There is no doubt that the four or five days before Christmas are some of the busiest for Britain’s railways as people travel home to see th...

In the early 1900s the London and South Western Railway (LSWR) was one of five British railway companies that began sending its clerks to ...

Alfred Chandler The rise of what Alfred Chandler called the ‘visible hand’ of management has dominated the business history literature f...