The railways were intrinsic to fighting the First World War, whether at home or abroad. On the Western Front and beyond trains ferried men and supplies to and f

From the exploits of railwaymen at the Front to the secrets of railway spies who worked behind enemy lines; the manufacture of munitions in railway workshops to

It is easy to believe that the only part that Britain’s railways played in the First World War was to carry the soldiers to the ships that would take them to

This title presents a collection of photographs illustrating the human and operational cost of two world wars on the Great Western Railway taken from the archiv