Archivist Alison Kay picks out some culinary highlights from our collection.
Although it might feel like the Station Hall redevelopment has been quiet of late, there has been a lot of work going on behind the scenes.
For Picture of the Week, Mark Green has chosen this vertigo-inducing shot of the widening of a railway cutting in Liverpool in 1881.
Archivist Alison Kay reveals how the railways kept the drinks flowing for Christmas.
It’s not just humans who’ve got stories to tell—our Station Stories project also gathered lots of tales about man’s best friend.
Our staff and volunteers reveal their favourite images from our vast photography collection.
How did railways help deliver Christmas on time?
We’ve just launched a new railway photos section on our main website, with over 3500 images from our gigantic photo collection. It’s only a tiny proportion of the over 1.75 million photographs we have in stores – we’re concentrating for the moment on official photos from old railway works – but we’re only just getting started. We’ll be adding many thousands more pictures over the coming months. Even better, the photos are released under a Creative Commons license: they’re free for […]
Love it or loathe it, the provision of food by railway companies has always been an important part of the rail passenger experience.
In Search Engine, our archive and library centre, we receive many thousands of enquiries each year by letter and email. We get some fascinating questions, and one recent query was quite unusual, so I thought I’d share it with you.
You’ve probably seen an object like this on a station platform – but what’s it for?
Steph, a volunteer on the Station Stories project, has selected some of her favourite tales that people have contributed so far.