National Union of Railwaymen
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| Founded | 1913 |
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| Date dissolved | 1990 |
| Merged into | National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers |
| Members | 408,900 (1945) |
| Affiliation | TUC |
| Office location | Unity House, Euston Road, London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
The National Union of Railwaymen was a trade union of railway workers in the United Kingdom.
The NUR was an industrial union founded in 1913 by the merger of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (founded 1872), the United Pointsmen and Signalmen's Society (founded 1880) and the General Railway Workers' Union (founded 1889).
The NUR represented the majority of railway workers, but not white-collar workers, who were members of the Railway Clerks' Association (founded 1897, later the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association). NUR membership was open to drivers and firemen but most chose instead to be members of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (founded 1880).
In 1914 the NUR joined forces with the National Transport Workers' Federation and Mining Federation of Great Britain to form the Triple Alliance – perhaps an unfortunate name, as the same year the Triple Entente of Britain, France and Russia and the Triple Alliance of Germany, and Austria-Hungary (albeit without Italy) went to war.
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