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Rachael Cottle

rachcottle

1/15 The Victorian Railways Department (VR) was established in 1856. An industry which predominantly employed men, the first recorded position for women in that year was a Housekeeper of the

Chloe Shields

ChloeAShields

1/15 Hi I'm Chloe and my @CDPConnect PhD project is 'Eating on the Go': Cultures of Consumption on the Railways in Britain,1880-1948 partnered with @railwaymuseum and @UniStrathclyde. My thread for

Dr Carolyn Dougherty

CarolyninManc

#NTiHoR 1/15 Before the railways was the carrying trade—an intermodal network of waggons, boats and coastal ships operated by independent carriers. Historians have written about these transport modes, but the

Joel Baker

joelrbaker

Good morning everyone, and thanks to the organisers for putting this conference together. I’m a final-year PhD student at @unishefhistory @WRoCAH where I look at infrastructure policy in Spain under

Rob Langham

GallipoliGunner

1/15 #NTiHoR Hi, I’m Rob and welcome to my paper 'Wooden rails to steel wheels – the development of the Tanfield branch in the 19th & 20th centuries as a

Ernest Ming-tak Leung 梁明德

ernestleungmt

1/ @Xhanti0330 asked me to recommend some reading regarding my recent thread on the Great East Asian Transversal Railway and global railway electrification. Here follows a few titles in English,

Ernest Ming-tak Leung 梁明德

ernestleungmt

The EF55 class locos, aka "Moomin", has mythical status in Japan. Built by Hitachi in 1936 for Tokaido expresses, they were the poster child of wartime high-tech Japan, and could