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Railway Workshops

Railway workshops began in the north of England as small engineering concerns building the engines that powered early railways such as the Stockton and Darlington. Once the railway companies had becom...

Doing Time Inside

The Great Western Railway's Swindon Works was the largest employer in the area, even during the early British Railway years. For well over a hundred years thousands of apprentices and `trainees' passe...

Life On The Lines

During much of his early career, from 1944 through to the early 1960s, Richard Hardy took hundreds of pictures of life on the railways and the men he knew and worked with on a daily basis, using his t...

Victoria Station Through Time

Victoria Station is the second in the Through Time series on London's famous railway termini. 115 million people pass through Victoria each year, making the station London's second busiest after Water...

Atlas of the Southern Railway

A detailed atlas showing the entire Southern Railway network during its period of operation, which provides a marvellous resource for all Southern Railway enthusiasts

Luxury Railway Travel

British luxury rail travel was not just the domain of the Pullman Company. In fact, they were far from the only providers as railway companies in Britain were extremely active from late Victorian time...

A4 Pacific Locomotives

A celebration in words and pictures of Gresley's A4 Pacific locomotives, some of the most beautiful steam locomotives ever to grace Britain's railways

History Through the Miles- Alaska Railroad

Frequent Hearses

Stars, starlets, floozies and factotums of the film world - Gervase Fen suspects them all. When young actress Gloria Scott throws herself from Waterloo Bridge, the news sends shockwaves through her...

Master And Man And Other Stories

Three stories from the last two decades of Tolstoy's life deal with the discovery of the basic truths of human life, the activities of the Russian army in the Caucasus, and the consequences of greed,...

Radio Free Vermont

As the host of Radio Free Vermont - 'underground, underpowered, and underfoot' - seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an 'undisclosed and double-secret location.' With the...

The Confidence-Man

“In The Confidence-Man,” writes John Bryant in his Introduction, “Melville found a way to render our tragic sense of self and society through the comic strategies of the confidence game. He puts the r...