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...

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...

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

The Somerset and Dorset Railway in 1875 The ultimate point of my PhD on the London and South Western Railway’s (LSWR) management between...

My last post discussed the research I have done on some of Britain’s earliest railwaywomen. They were employed by four companies in the 184...

I don’t often write about the rolling stock of Britain’s railway on this blog. In fact, I don’t think I have so far. I don’t know why. The...

Safety for Britain’s railway employees before 1913 was governed by the rule books that each was obliged to carry. This had been the case sin...