The recent snow has affected all of the UK’s transport modes to varying degrees, and the railways have been the subject of much discussion. We’ve…
If you’re in the UK, you’ll have noticed it’s been rather cold of late, including a lot of snow. Despite the adverse comment about some…
One of the important things that our database makes it easier for us to see is how often similar cases occur: whether it be the…
Accidents of any sort aren’t particularly romantic, it has to be said, but given it’s St Valentine’s Day this week, we thought we’d have a…
If you were glancing through our database of railway worker accidents in haste, you might be forgiven for spotting two similar looking names and thinking…
Each case in our database is interesting (and often sad) in its own right. But one of the powerful things the database allows us to…
One of the things we wanted the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project to do was to make it easier for you to find out…
A happy new year to our readers! This week saw a couple of London-based anniversaries, so we thought we’d frame our first substantive post of…
Network Rail’s recent promo video about the engineering works currently taking place this Christmas is a good reminder that there’s always something happening on our…
What the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ database shows really nicely – and importantly – is how numerous the ‘mundane’ accidents were: the cases that…