In the course of my research I find the most wonderful, weird and interesting things associated with the railways of Britain. I should also ...

Unfortunately, I am deep into a chapter that is due in on Monday, or thereabouts. As such, I have not had the time to write any blog posts a...

In my last blog post I talked about how the Great Western (GWR) and London and South Western Railway’s (L&SWR) staff magazines’ had diff...

Very recently, I have become interested in railway company staff magazines from before 1923. Not only are they an excellent source of inform...

Probably the weirdest thing I have come across in any railway company staff magazine was ‘Auntie Agnes,’ who wrote for the staff magazine of...

Hiding under the ins and outs of my PhD is the universal basic premise of business history, that what I am essentially studying is how and w...

Inevitably, passenger and railway advocacy groups criticised the fare rises that hit us yesterday. In the wake of this, the Chief Executive ...