Life on the railways (week four)
The extent to which railways were a “family” has been reinforced on the fourth and final week of the course about life on the railways in Victorian times. The main focus this week has been…
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Life on the railways (week three)
This is a rare picture. Not only is the group of people posing formally for a photograph but the people in the scene were rarely photographed. They are the navvies who built the railways in…
Life on the railways (week two)
I’d always thought of them as places of intense activity or intense immobility. But I’d never really considered them as prisons. Yet that’s how a signal box was described in 1883. Yes, it’s the second…
Life on the railways (week one)
I’ve signed up to a course to learn more about the lives of railway workers. The four-week course is run by Future Learn and promises that I’ll “discover Britain’s industrial heritage and learn about the…