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 ...

Euphemia Penman was a remarkable woman who rose to become one of the most respected managers in the emergent tram systems of late-Victorian ...

‘The events’ writes the Transport for London's (TfL) website ‘will explore the tube’s history and will look at the role it will play in ...

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...

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