As a project, we try to make our work accessible to a wide audience – after all, the more who know about us, the better…
Railway station ticket offices in the UK are in the news at the moment. Unfortunately, it’s not for good reasons. Under current proposals from the…
The original intention for this blog post was to act as a micro-study, taking one place in our database and looking at some of the…
In three weeks’ time, on 27 March 2023, we’ll be releasing another update to our database of accidents to British and Irish railway staff before…
This month the Railway Work, Life & Death project once again has an exciting new set of data being entered into the project’s database. With…
Recently it was announced that the site of the Edge Hill engine station in Liverpool has been given listed status. This is to mark the…
This week’s blog post is another that came about via an enquiry received by the project. Derek, this week’s author, was researching his family history,…
It seems every aspect of railway working was (is?) full of arcane practices. Shunting – moving wagons and carriages around to get them into the…
As travellers today (when we’re able to resume travelling) we may be less than enamoured of the toilets on trains – all too often cramped,…