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…
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 –…
Four years ago, in 2022, the Railway Work, Life & Death project researched the Wilmcote accident, which killed four Great Western Railway (GWR) track workers…
Over the last six days we’ve been blogging about 1922 Wilmcote accident (see yesterday’s post here), in the lead up to the centenary on 24…
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…
This week we’re delighted to welcome a guest post to the Railway Work, Life & Death project blog. John Pullin looks at a passenger crash…
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…
by Stephen Foster This post is a story, inspired by one of the accidents found in the Railway Work, Life & Death project database.…
Yesterday we opened one of the key outputs of the Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project – a public exhibition. It brings together the research undertaken…