Between 1-5 May 2025, the arrival of the railway at Guildford, Surrey, in 1845 is being marked with a temporary exhibition and a plaque on…
2025 is an interesting year for understanding our railway pasts. ‘Railway 200’ is a nation-wide programme of events which marks 200 years since the Stockton…
This week we’re delighted to welcome a guest post to the Railway Work, Life & Death project blog. Shaun Brooke got in touch with us…
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…
It’s not often that the kinds of accidents which feature in the Railway Work, Life & Death project and its database were described as a…
Very often the Railway Work, Life & Death project has focused on ‘front-line’, operational staff, who kept the trains moving. They’ve been clustered in roles…
This summer, we’ll be introducing a vast run of records to the Railway Work, Life & Death project database of accidents to British and Irish…
Since 2018, a team of brilliant volunteers has been working at The National Archives of the UK. They’ve been transcribing the accident records produced by…
Marking both Women’s History Month and St David’s Day, today’s blog post focuses on one place we’re going to find Welsh railwaywomen in the Railway…
Around two weeks’ ago, we put out a request on our Twitter account to find out more about ‘Cricpante Rego’ – and as well as…