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…
As we approach 2018 we thought it might be interesting to have a look at the junction between the old year and the new as…
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…