Who were Frederick Fenney, Percy Masterman and George Way? Do the communities in which they lived and worked remember them, over 100 years after they…
This was the pronouncement from the South Western Star newspaper, on the death of London and South Western Railway (LSWR) gas fitter Ernest Browning.[1] Browning…
A leap year and a leap day are always a bit unusual. Sadly for the railways they weren’t so unusual in terms of the accidents…
Some days on the railways were worse than others – in total, and for particular grades of workers. The 19th of January was one which…
28 March was originally planned to host Dorset History Day – though obviously that’s now been postponed due to Coronavirus. However, as we’d written this…
The UK is currently undergoing a very warm spell, with today, 25 July, looking like it’s going to be the hottest day of the year…
In the latest of our Volunteers’ Week posts, project volunteer Cheryl Hunnisett, working with us at the Modern Records Centre, takes a look at one…
In this guest blog post, Steve Chown outlines the few details he has of his grandfather Jim’s accident on the railways around the time of…
After many years of concern, the 1902 Prevention of Accidents Rules introduced several measures to improve railway worker safety. One was the requirement to cover…
What place did the horse have in the steam railway? Perhaps surprisingly, a big one. Horses were essential for shunting wagons in yards and for…