Are your railway roots deeper than a man from Croydon who can trace his train heritage back to 1846?

Next year marks 200 years of the modern railway and the train utilities company wants to hear your family stories.

76-year-old Mike Lamport, who lives in Cambridgeshire, enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the railway, retiring in 2008.

His 27-year-old son, Andrew lives in Croydon and now works as a guard for South Western Railway at Waterloo.

Mike’s great grandfather Matthew Mathews joined the original South Western Railway as ‘Porter No.18’ at Richmond station in 1846.

Two years later, he was one of the heroes of a train crash at Epsom Junction, now known as Raynes Park.

For more information about the Railway 200 project, visit railway200.co.uk