ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL 1806-1859 WINDSOR RAILWAY BRIDGE, opened to rail traffic in 1849 designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway line. It’s the oldest surviving wrought iro...

QUEEN VICTORIA 1819-1901 ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AT WINDSOR STATION ON 2 MARCH 1882 Queen Victoria had returned from London on the train to Windsor station where she transferred to a carriage to continu...

Born in Sussex in 1958, Helena trained as a GPO switchboard operator, which led to a job as a telephonist in British Rail’s Southern Region at Waterloo in 1977. She realised very quickly that the jo...

EDITH SHEPPARD b 1891-1963 Stationmaster at Dorking during the first World War Edith Sheppard’s life and opportunities changed completely because of the war. She was able to take up a job that had o...

  CHARLOTTE MARSH 1887-1961 Suffragette campaign organiser – ‘Charlie’ Marsh relied on inexpensive train travel to attend protests in London with fellow Dorking resident and suf...

In this weeks highlights we have been talking  with young people about safety issues when they travel and seen some progress at Crowborough. We had a visit to the Houses of Parliament to a reception ...

The best-selling novelist of all time – the writer of 66 detective novels – Agatha Christie loved train travel and was fond of using trains in her novels, as crime scenes for example. Sometimes th...

On 4th July 2025 as part of our Railway 200 celebrations, Wokingham Station welcomed invited guests and passengers to join its 176th birthday. Wokingham station opened in 1849 and remains a busy hub f...

All steam head ahead for our Rail Fair 200 on 1st Aug in Lewes.  Glimpses of our 200 plaques are appearing at stations featuring some current station masters as well as those from the past. We are st...