In September every year, Heritage Open Days is a nation-wide set of events providing unparalleled access to Britain’s history and heritage. In 2026, it runs…
In December 2025, the Railway Work, Life & Death project was one of the organisations hosted in the ‘partner zone’ carriage on ‘Inspiration’, the Railway…
It’s funny the part that chance plays in things. In early June 2026, a fortuitous conversation led on to another Railway Work, Life & Death…
Many of you might have noticed that the football world cup is currently on. At previous football world cups, we’ve searched the Railway Work, Life…
Over the last year or so, we’ve been working more closely with heritage railway organisations. Some of that has been through and with the Heritage…
In the course of researching our previous blog post, looking at disabled railway workers in our most recent Railway Work, Life & Death project data…
With next week’s new data release, this post from guest author Susan Fabbro is timely. Susan was good enough to put it together for us…
2026 marks 100 years of Portsmouth’s city status – and as one of the Railway Work, Life & Death project co-leads, Mike Esbester, is based…
In 2025 we received a rather lovely email from Peter Kilvert, thanking us for the Railway Work, Life & Death project’s work, as it had…
According to the Coventry Herald, it was a ‘remarkable accident near Warwick’. On 28 March 1926, a Great Western Railway (GWR) steam engine collided with…