Explosive safety devices for use in poor visibility, emergencies and to protect engineering works. . . . . . . Detonators, or “Signals,...

A one-time revenue source - and unwelcome tunnellers. . . . . . . . In the days when rabbits were an important part of the national human...

How a serious accident led to the development of a longstanding footplate safety warning system. . . . . . . How many times do we hear...

Keeping time on the Great Western Railway. . . . . . . The Great Western Railway (GWR) timetable for January 1841 explains railway time...

Summary: Signalbox life featuring Cuneo’s ‘On Early Morning Shift’ poster. . . . . . . In days gone by I volunteered to act as host for...

The Rutland village of Ketton, on the Peterborough to Leicester cross-country line, still retains a traditional manual signal box. Of...

Summary: The stories of Ted Cook, Leicester signalman. . . . . . . Well, you know how it is. It’s a cold November morning but in Ted’s...

This historic 1947 New Year’s Eve sound recording in a signal box at Reading, Berkshire, 36 miles from Paddington mentions that it was a...

The story of signalman Iain MacKenzie. . . . . . . . Several people I met while collecting oral histories mentioned ‘Iain’ as someone...

This historic 1947 New Year’s Eve sound recording in a signal box at Reading, Berkshire, 36 miles from Paddington mentions that it was a...

Northenden Junction signal box The latest additions to the Film Archive of Railway Signalling and People (FARSAP) can now be viewed....

The most recent films uploaded onto the Film Archive of Railway Signalling and People (FARSAP) site give us a total of 165 signalling...

This signal box originally controlled the lines between London Bridge, Cannon Street and Charing Cross/Blackfriars. It was, at the time,...

It’s good to know that in these difficult days of distancing, isolation and worse we can get away from it all. You need move no further...

From time to time, the Friends of the NRM embark on new projects, researching aspects of Britain's railways which have rarely been...