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…
In the course of researching our previous blog post, looking at disabled railway workers in our most recent Railway Work, Life & Death project data…
Earlier this year, our new data release added around 69,000 cases to the Railway Work, Life & Death project database of accidents to British and…
Yesterday we opened one of the key outputs of the Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project – a public exhibition. It brings together the research undertaken…
This week is a busy one for railway history – especially in the north-east of England! The ‘Railway 200’ year culminates in the 200th anniversary…
Over the years we’ve tried to make sure that lots of people know about the Railway Work, Life & Death project. We’ve worked with all…
It’s been a month since the Railway Work, Life & Death project released our newest dataset – and it’s been a busy time! The new…
It’s done! Today we release another c.69,000 records of railway staff accidents into the Railway Work, Life & Death project database – available here, for…
The Railway Work, Life & Death project database is full of cases which we can usefully evaluate with modern eyes. This isn’t straightforward of course…
19-25 May 2025 is ‘Community Rail Week’ – an annual chance to boost the work being done to connect communities with their railways today. The…