Condensation in walk-in coolers can be avoided! Owners of walk-in coolers and freezers have seen droplets on glass doors or pooling water on the floor around the edge of the unit and can easily be frustrated. The good news? There are steps you can take to avoid condensation! In the latest podcast by KPS Global’s…
An article from The Atlantic stated it perfectly: “This is the Everything Shortage… When the global supply chain works, it’s like a beautifully invisible system of dominoes clicking forward. Today’s omnishambles is a reminder that dominoes can fall backwards too.” What’s Happening in the Cold Storage Industry? The current market dynamics continue to affect North…
One thing that everyone at KPS Global appreciates about Facilities Technician Mike Cline is that he tries to be an open book. He is also always willing to help and is normally one step ahead of you! We’ve loved getting to know Mike over the past year and a half that he’s worked with us,…
Archivist Alison Kay shares a fascinating discovery she recently made in our collection. While working on a recent cataloguing project funded by the Business Archives Council, I uncovered some fascinating new information about two key unresearched items in our collection. Reading through the pages of two unidentified diaries titled ‘diary number one’ and ‘diary number…
Join Geoff Marshall and Vicky Pipe on an epic rail journey around Britain. We set out on our journey to visit all the stations in Great Britain from Penzance on Sunday 7 May. Over 600 trains later and 14 weeks, 6 days, 8 hours and 22 minutes of travelling we reached Wick, in the Highlands of…
Find out more about how volunteering can help us improve access to our archive. Alan Jackson was an inveterate collector of information on all aspects of the railways and recorded his data on a series of index cards. He left his collection of cards and supporting material to the Railway and Canal Historical Society and…
After cylinder repairs last week, NELPG’s K1 2-6-0 No. 62005 was in steam today for trials at Shildon. If all is well after repairs, 62005 will leave on Saturday for a week’s running in on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway before heading for the summer season at Fort William. Here’s the by now obligatory “coal…
The National Railway Museum relies on the fantastic work of volunteers—find out more about what they get up to. I recently met with Soren, a postgraduate History student at the University of Dresden, to find out what he had been up to in his volunteer placement at our museum. What made you want to volunteer…
Anthony Coulls looks forward to a special event at the National Railway Museum. Regular readers of the blog will have noticed two things recently. The first is the absence of posts from me – that’s due to time constraints and trying to get the day job done. If I can, I will backtrack to the…
Here’s another image from our ever-increasing online photo collection, this time the choice of Ruth Leach, our Interpretation Developer. Over the last year or so I’ve frequently turned to our image collection for inspiration for the Station Hall redevelopment. When I was looking at how stations had celebrated royal arrivals, I found this one of George…