Between 1-5 May 2025, the arrival of the railway at Guildford, Surrey, in 1845 is being marked with a temporary exhibition and a plaque on…
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…
Last week we went to Aberystwyth, for the launch of Transport for Wales ‘Railway 200’ programme. The launch was excellent, bringing together the current industry,…
The previous four blog posts in this series, the most recent of which is here, have focused on the past. Today’s post links past and…
By now, hopefully you’ll be aware of ‘Railway 200’ – a partnership campaign marking 200 years of railway travel since the Stockton & Darlington Railway…
10 September 2024 is the 150th anniversary of the Thorpe railway disaster. Two trains met head-on, two miles east of Norwich. Twenty-five died and 75…
John Cockerill William Hibbert George Buckby Richard Shillaker Thomas Shillcock Five men, at work at Manton junction and tunnel, in Rutland, on Saturday 24…
In our previous post in this series, we started looking at the men injured in the 1924 Manton tunnel accident. So far we’ve been using…
Our previous blog post on the Manton tunnel explosion of May 1924 explored the lives and families of those men who died, Thomas Cockerill and…
5 July 2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the NHS. In 1948, this was a radical rethinking of healthcare provision, making it free at the…