In Mrs. Oliphant's novel, 'The Railway Man and His Children', the news of Miss Ferrars' upcoming marriage to Mr. Rowland, the engineer, sends shockwaves through

During the Second World War, Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway, and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left

"Jim was a South African railway inspector in the late 1800s who lost his legs in an accident while at work. Unable to perform all his tasks with his disability