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...

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...

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...

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

Mid-way through last year, I looked at the first sixteen female ledger clerks employed at the London and North Western Railway’s (L&NWR)...