Four years ago, in 2022, the Railway Work, Life & Death project researched the Wilmcote accident, which killed four Great Western Railway (GWR) track workers…
Over the last six days we’ve been blogging about 1922 Wilmcote accident (see yesterday’s post here), in the lead up to the centenary on 24…
The previous four blog posts in this series, the most recent of which is here, have focused on the past. Today’s post links past and…
This blog is our final post in this series, ahead of the centenary tomorrow of the 1921 Stapleton Road accident. Yesterday we looked at the…
The scene that confronted 18-year old Harry Hardy was gruesome. Five of his workmates had been hit by a passing train. There was nothing he…
2026 marks 100 years of Portsmouth’s city status – and as one of the Railway Work, Life & Death project co-leads, Mike Esbester, is based…
According to the Coventry Herald, it was a ‘remarkable accident near Warwick’. On 28 March 1926, a Great Western Railway (GWR) steam engine collided with…
A rather hasty and belated blog post, this week – was so waylaid with things that it wasn’t possible to write it sooner. We had…
One hundred years ago, in May 1926, Britain was in the throes of its first, and only, general strike. In an attempt to maintain profits…
This seems like an odd question to pose on International Workers’ Memorial Day. Surely today, if no others, is a day for remembering railway –…