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…
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…
In this blog post we continue our series produced by University of Portsmouth History degree students as part of their course this year. For their…
This blog post was produced by University of Portsmouth History student Jenny Leng, as part of her work on the ‘Working with the Past’ module.…
In our previous post in this series, we looked at accidents in our database from the newly-Grouped companies over the course of 1923. There’s no…
As part of Disability History Month, our recent blog posts (here and here) have focused on physical disabilities caused by railway work. But what about…
On 14 October 2022, King’s Cross station in London will be 170 years old. To mark this anniversary, this week’s blog post looks at accidents…
In yesterday’s blog we outlined what we knew of two of the men involved in the Holywell Junction accident, Richard Jones and Alfred Jones. Today…
Yesterday’s blog looked at the accident at Holywell Junction on 1 September 1922. The next blog posts will look at the men involved. To be…