In September every year, Heritage Open Days is a nation-wide set of events providing unparalleled access to Britain’s history and heritage. In 2026, it runs…
It’s funny the part that chance plays in things. In early June 2026, a fortuitous conversation led on to another Railway Work, Life & Death…
Many of you might have noticed that the football world cup is currently on. At previous football world cups, we’ve searched the Railway Work, Life…
Over the last year or so, we’ve been working more closely with heritage railway organisations. Some of that has been through and with the Heritage…
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 –…
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…
Four years ago, in 2022, the Railway Work, Life & Death project researched the Wilmcote accident, which killed four Great Western Railway (GWR) track workers…
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…