
ALT Image advertising 'Railway workers day' on Thursday 24 September 2026, between 11am and 3pm at the Family History Society of Cheshire's Crewe Research Centre. Tea, coffee and cake are available at the free drop-in event, which will share some of Crewe's railway heritage, focusing on the railway Works, and allow people the chance to share their stories. Behind the text is an image of railwaymen gathered around a steam engine at the Crewe railway works.

ALT Cover of the Journal of Transport History. A dark blue background, white sans-serif text, with 10 small images of various forms of transport & mobility – an airship, a bridge, a compass, a shoe, a propeller aeroplane, an early pneumatic tyre, bicycle gears, a steam locomotive boiler, a tunnel and a late pneumatic tyre.

ALT Eight pull-up banners, from the 'South coast's forgotten railway workers' exhibition, stood on a red carpet, around the edges of a room. The banners introduce railway work before 1939 in the Portsmouth area, and some of the employees' life stories. Above the banners and behind, a sign says 'Portsmouth History Centre', with 'Portsmouth 100' bunting on the ceiling.

ALT A brick-built railway station building, with canopy over the platform, stands behind a group of people. Railway tracks are to the fore.

ALT Early twentieth-century Great Western Railway station, with lattice footbridge with a cover, a roadbridge over the line in the distance, trees and greenery around, and platforms and tracks running through the centre of the image. A brick-built station building stands to the right of the image, and outside it sit two GWR-style benches.

ALT Eight pull-up banners, from the 'South coast's forgotten railway workers' exhibition, stood on a red carpet, around the edges of a room. The banners introduce railway work before 1939 in the Portsmouth area, and some of the employees' life stories. Above the banners and behind, a sign says 'Portsmouth History Centre', with 'Portsmouth 100' bunting on the ceiling.














