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...

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 ...

In the late nineteenth century most railway employees would find themselves at work over the Christmas period, even on Christmas Day itself....

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

Late Victorian and Edwardian Station Masters are perceived to have been highly respected individuals. They commanded the stations at which t...