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…
The previous four blog posts in this series, the most recent of which is here, have focused on the past. Today’s post links past and…
This blog is our final post in this series, ahead of the centenary tomorrow of the 1921 Stapleton Road accident. Yesterday we looked at the…
The scene that confronted 18-year old Harry Hardy was gruesome. Five of his workmates had been hit by a passing train. There was nothing he…
In December 2025, the Railway Work, Life & Death project was one of the organisations hosted in the ‘partner zone’ carriage on ‘Inspiration’, the Railway…
Many of you might have noticed that the football world cup is currently on. At previous football world cups, we’ve searched the Railway Work, Life…
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…
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…
19-25 May 2025 is ‘Community Rail Week’ – an annual chance to boost the work being done to connect communities with their railways today. The…