K11 - Military

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Personal recollections of railways

Sep 8, 20224 min read

You Have Been Warned!

Railways and rifles. . . . . . . Historically, you wouldn’t normally associate operating railways with the use of firearms, although...

Jan 30, 20224 min read

The Long Wait

It is early winter and the long train of coaches has stopped in the middle of nowhere. An icy wind blows down from the mountains onto a...

Nov 10, 20211 min read

11th November

WagonLit 2419 is widely known as the carriage on Marechal Fuch's wartime train where the truce was signed which stopped hostilities...

Nov 13, 20202 min read

WW1 Shildon Wagon Works Commemorative Display

Charlie Walton, of the North East branch of the Friends, has written a reflection on the memorial the Friends commissioned at Locomotion...

Jul 27, 20202 min read

Signalling - a cinderalla subject

Railway signalling is perceived by many as a Cinderella subject but in the early 90's the National Railway Museum in York had a surfeit...

Jun 13, 20204 min read

A locomotive for all seasons

One of the strangest events of the Second World War was that Oliver Bulleid, then Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway (SR),...

May 8, 20201 min read

Memories of VE Day from ex LNER guard Gladys Garlick

The fruits of much work by the Friends of the NRM are still flowering after twenty years. Their interviews with wartime female railway...

Apr 10, 20201 min read

Our own war casualty

The Spring edition of NRM Review features several articles about World War 2. Unfortunately, we ran out of space at 68 pages, so this...

Mar 29, 20202 min read

Secret train that propelled Britain to victory

In 1942, when leaders of the free world were preoccupied with planning the downfall of Hitler, VIP travel plans involving Britain's...