THE next in a series of lunchtime talks at Scarborough Art Gallery focuses is on the ambulance trains of the First World War.

Alison Kay, of the National Railway Museum, in York, will look at the ambulance trains which were used on both foreign soil and the home front.

Her talk explores the experiences of people who travelled on the trains; their fear, horror and sheer relief, and their compelling, tragic, heartfelt – and sometimes amusing – observations.

Alison is the associate archivist at the National Railway Museum. She has worked in the museum since 2007 on projects to catalogue industrial and family archives, as well as caring for and promoting the NRM collections.

Alison is especially interested in the social and personal aspects of railway history and is currently researching ambulance trains with a view to publishing an article this year.

That Vile Train: World War One Ambulance Train Travel talk will start at 12.30pm on Friday, August 29. Tickets are £3, which includes entry to both Scarborough Art Gallery and the Rotunda Museum for a year. To book, or for further information, phone 01723 374753.

A major new exhibition at Scarborough Art Gallery commemorating the Bombardment and those who died, Remember Scarborough, can be seen until January 4.