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Almost every family tree will have a railway employee in one of its branches. Railway Ancestors is a comprehensive and illustrated guide which opens up to genealogists and railway enthusiasts the vast range of unique information stored in the documentary archives of the railway companies of England and Wales.

It describes in detail the sources available for the researcher and how to gain access to them, giving examples of the many different types of records, and includes an alphabetical listing of all the known railway companies which existed in England and Wales prior to nationalisation - almost a thousand in total - together with their dates of opening in each county and the location of their staff records. Illustrated throughout with archive documents and photographs, this book offers an illuminating perspective on the social and industrial history of Britain, and provides an indispensable handbook for family and railway historians.