It’s not often that the kinds of accidents which feature in the Railway Work, Life & Death project and its database were described as a…
2024’s Disability History Month theme is ‘Disability livelihood and employment’. This is directly relevant to the Railway Work, Life & Death project. As many of…
Next week we’re heading north – sufficiently so that there aren’t any railways that feature in the project. We’re off to Shetland and Orkney, off…
This is another in our occasional series of posts produced by University of Portsmouth History degree students as part of their course. For their second-year…
On 4 March 2024, a passenger train struck an object on the tracks at Walton-on-Thames. Part of the train derailed, though thankfully no-one was hurt.…
In three weeks’ time, on 27 March 2023, we’ll be releasing another update to our database of accidents to British and Irish railway staff before…
As we approach 2018 we thought it might be interesting to have a look at the junction between the old year and the new as…
In a week’s time, on Christmas Day, the UK’s rail network will be a lot quieter than usual. There won’t be any passenger services running.…
4 August is International Beer Day! Never ones to pass up a beer-related opportunity, we had a look through the project database to see what…
Railway station ticket offices in the UK are in the news at the moment. Unfortunately, it’s not for good reasons. Under current proposals from the…