K11 - Military

Did You Know?

Personal recollections of railways

You Have Been Warned!

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

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...

11th November

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

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...

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...

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),...

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...

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...

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...