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…
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…
Until March 2025, we’d been quite confident in saying that in Britain, women didn’t work maintaining railway tracks until the Second World War. That’s certainly…