Tag: Footplate life

• Off the Rails: Why This Book Matters

  Off the Rails: The Story of Crewe Steam Train Driver Alfred Jenkins began not as a publishing project but as an act of recovery, an attempt to give structure and permanence to a life that had been lived with discipline, endurance, and quiet dignity, and then almost lost to time. Alfred Jenkins (1882–1956) was my…

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  10/01/2026

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  Biography, books, British railways, British social history, Crewe history, Crewe railway history, Edwardian Britain, Everyday lives, family history, Footplate life, Genealogy, Great Western Railway, Hidden histories, history, Industrial Britain, Interwar Britain, Labour history, Microhistory, Occupational history, Railway history, Railway towns, Railway workers, Railwaymen, Social history, Steam locomotives, Steam railway, travel, Twentieth-century Britain, Victorian industry, working-class history, World War One home front, World War Two home front