Over the years our project and our blog have covered many topics relating to railway work and railway workers. But ethnicity hasn’t explicitly been one…
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…
The previous four blog posts in this series, the most recent of which is here, have focused on the past. Today’s post links past and…
This blog is our final post in this series, ahead of the centenary tomorrow of the 1921 Stapleton Road accident. Yesterday we looked at the…
On Thursday 24 September 2026, it’s all about Crewe! Supported by the Railway Work, Life & Death project, the Family History Society of Cheshire is…
The scene that confronted 18-year old Harry Hardy was gruesome. Five of his workmates had been hit by a passing train. There was nothing he…
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…