William Vaughan (1752-1850) was a director of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation, London, and was much interested in canals and railways and docks. Railways, he said, were common in England ...

The railway was originally established to serve the needs of the coal mines of Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. A pit pony in a coal mine, photograph taken in the early 1900s. There was ...

On Jan. 29, he provided a local, regional — and in some cases, national — overview of the topic for historical society members with an informative, engaging program, “Early Railroads in the ...

His father, a station master, dragged his family across the state to a new posting every couple of years, and so a peculiar brand of patriotism – centred on Australia’s early railways ...