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...

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...

Whenever a railway company decided to employ a woman as a clerk before 1914, the newspapers always described the event as an ‘experiment’ or...

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 ...

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...

While I have written frequently about female clerks on Britain’s railways before 1914, I have never penned a complete history. Therefore, th...

The London and South Western Railway had an intimate relationship with Titanic , the ship having sailed from the company’s Southampton Docks...

Christian Wolmar has written frequently that one of the major causes of the railway industry's current woes, in terms of operational cos...