K02 - Railways and the Passenger

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Personal recollections of railways

Dec 1, 20223 min read

The Role of Guards from 1874

List of duties to be carried out by passenger guards on the Great Western Railway. . . . . . . There is no doubt that passenger guards...

Nov 17, 20225 min read

Heat and light

For trains in the worst of weathers. . . . . . . With the costs of fuel, lighting, heating, weird weather and global warming very much in...

Apr 24, 20224 min read

‘A White Sports Coat and a Pink Carnation’

A girls’ day out on the railway to Skegness in the 1950’s. . . . . . . . Digging deep into the oral history files I have a section...

Apr 21, 20223 min read

1947 - The last year of the Great Western Railway at Paddington Station

1947 was, of course, the last year of operation for the “Big Four” railway companies before the 1948 Nationalisation. Despite having had...

Apr 17, 20224 min read

Remembering old Kings Cross

The regeneration of Kings Cross and St Pancras. . . . . . . . It’s a bracing morning in Camley Street, with some winter sunshine but a...

Mar 13, 20224 min read

What’s in a Name?

The story of W P Allen and the locomotive named after him. . . . . . . It is 1948 at Doncaster Plant, by now British Railways rather than...

Mar 28, 20202 min read

Virus control on the GWR (from an FNRM member who was there at the time)

As we battle another infectious disease, 90 years ago, building work was underway on the Great Western Railway’s new carriage and vehicle...