The second of my recent purchases is a clipping from Modern Transport Magazine from January 1949. The article describes the new Railway Police School at Walton on the Hill, Tadworth, Surrey. It expresses a hope that the opening of the school would bring a consistency to the training of officers from the various railway police forces which had come together as a result of the nationalisation of public transport. The new force didn’t really have a name (sometimes described as the British Railways Police) at this stage and it took the passage of the British Transport Commission Act later in the year for the BTC Police to emerge in a form that we would still recognise. The article contains some photographs and a description of the tasks facing the railway police in the post war period. It points out that it was the second largest force in the country with around 4,000 officers. ‘Tadworth’ as it was universally known became the jewel in the rathe...