We know from the Railway Work, Life & Death project database that, on 11 November 1932, Southern Railway checker G Richardson was injured at Havant…
Between 1-5 May 2025, the arrival of the railway at Guildford, Surrey, in 1845 is being marked with a temporary exhibition and a plaque on…
2025 is an interesting year for understanding our railway pasts. ‘Railway 200’ is a nation-wide programme of events which marks 200 years since the Stockton…
Who were Frederick Fenney, Percy Masterman and George Way? Do the communities in which they lived and worked remember them, over 100 years after they…
On 10 November 1840, a steam locomotive named ‘Surprise’ exploded in Bromsgrove. It killed its crew, Joseph Rutherford and Thomas Scaife. The incident might perhaps…
June 2024 saw the 40th anniversary of the closure of Shildon Works, in County Durham. The closure, in 1984, hit Shildon hard, with the loss…
Peterborough has appeared on our blog before now, in this post about the death of platelayer James Spridgeon, and in this post about railway deaths…
Narrating the lives and losses of young railway workers Ahead of this week’s Crewe: Your Railway, Your Family event, on Thursday 14 September as part…
In yesterday’s blog post, we explored what happened in the accident at Manton Tunnel, Rutland, on 24 May 1924, and the immediate aftermath. In today’s…
In our previous post in this series, we started looking at the men injured in the 1924 Manton tunnel accident. So far we’ve been using…