In many of the cases found in our database the Railway Inspectorate report provides an attribution of responsibility for the accident. Around a quarter of…
At the moment, Glasgow Queen St station is undergoing a major redevelopment, which has included exposing the Victorian glass frontage, concealed for the last 40…
It was reported last week that the proposed demolition of most of the remaining original parts of the London and North Western Railway’s Wolverton Works…
In railway terms, Waterloo generally brings one thing to mind: the London mainline station, in our period the terminal point of the London & South…
28 April is Workers’ Memorial Day – an important occasion for us to stop and think about all those who have died, been injured or…
Most people in our database feature only once. But there is a select group of individuals – 15 of them – that feature twice, as…
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…
The answer is, of course, one. But we live in the real world, and only too frequently accidents happen. We’d hope only once, but sometimes…