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…
This week we’re delighted to welcome a guest post to the Railway Work, Life & Death project blog. John Pullin looks at a passenger crash…
In the course of researching our previous blog post, looking at disabled railway workers in our most recent Railway Work, Life & Death project data…
Earlier this year, our new data release added around 69,000 cases to the Railway Work, Life & Death project database of accidents to British and…
by Stephen Foster This post is a story, inspired by one of the accidents found in the Railway Work, Life & Death project database.…
Yesterday we opened one of the key outputs of the Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project – a public exhibition. It brings together the research undertaken…
Railway Work, Life & Death Co-Lead and Library Manager at the National Railway Museum (NRM), Karen Baker, talks about the Museum’s use of the RWLD…
This week is a busy one for railway history – especially in the north-east of England! The ‘Railway 200’ year culminates in the 200th anniversary…
It’s been a month since the Railway Work, Life & Death project released our newest dataset – and it’s been a busy time! The new…
Over the years we’ve tried to make sure that lots of people know about the Railway Work, Life & Death project. We’ve worked with all…