2026 marks 100 years of Portsmouth’s city status – and as one of the Railway Work, Life & Death project co-leads, Mike Esbester, is based…
In 2025 we received a rather lovely email from Peter Kilvert, thanking us for the Railway Work, Life & Death project’s work, as it had…
According to the Coventry Herald, it was a ‘remarkable accident near Warwick’. On 28 March 1926, a Great Western Railway (GWR) steam engine collided with…
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…
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…
by Stephen Foster This post is a story, inspired by one of the accidents found in the Railway Work, Life & Death project database.…