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…
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…