Most people in our database feature only once. But there is a select group of individuals – 15 of them – that feature twice, as…
At best, we might think of runaway trains as belonging to the world of high drama, the culmination of an outlandish film plot; at worst,…
Accidents of any sort aren’t particularly romantic, it has to be said, but given it’s St Valentine’s Day this week, we thought we’d have a…
If you’re based in the United Kingdom, you’ll no doubt be aware that 6 February 2018 marks a significant anniversary: the centenary of the Representation…
If you were glancing through our database of railway worker accidents in haste, you might be forgiven for spotting two similar looking names and thinking…
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…
Network Rail’s recent promo video about the engineering works currently taking place this Christmas is a good reminder that there’s always something happening on our…
In our previous post we mentioned some of the immediate post-accident care that injured railway workers might have received – first aid at the scene…
Just a quick post today – to say that we’re thrilled that as part of our collaborative work between the University of Portsmouth and the…
What the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ database shows really nicely – and importantly – is how numerous the ‘mundane’ accidents were: the cases that…