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…
by Stephen Foster This post is a story, inspired by one of the accidents found in the Railway Work, Life & Death project database.…
This week is a busy one for railway history – especially in the north-east of England! The ‘Railway 200’ year culminates in the 200th anniversary…
We know from the Railway Work, Life & Death project database that, on 11 November 1932, Southern Railway checker G Richardson was injured at Havant…
In the UK, the heritage railway sector is an important contributor to public engagement with the past. We benefit from widespread public interest in the…
We first ‘met’ Chris Cornell, this week’s guest author, on social media. We ended up discussing a number of things – but soon a very…
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…
2025 is an interesting year for understanding our railway pasts. ‘Railway 200’ is a nation-wide programme of events which marks 200 years since the Stockton…