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…
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…
In most cases, the people judged (by the companies or the Railway Inspectors) to have caused an accident were the ones who suffered. Presumably this…
A guest post, by Arthur Moore, one of the project’s volunteers Having spent some time inputting Board of Trade accident reports on to…