It’s not often there’s the chance to tell the story of an ordinary railway worker’s accident on a national platform. James Welland’s 1898 injury offered…
Next week we’re heading north – sufficiently so that there aren’t any railways that feature in the project. We’re off to Shetland and Orkney, off…
June 2024 saw the 40th anniversary of the closure of Shildon Works, in County Durham. The closure, in 1984, hit Shildon hard, with the loss…
Earlier this month, Darlington’s railway museum opened in its revamped and reimagined format: Hopetown. Previously known as Head of Steam, it occupies the site of…
2024 marks the 50th anniversary of three organisations important to the Railway Work, Life & Death project. The Hampshire Genealogical Society (HGS), Leicestershire & Rutland…
This was the pronouncement from the South Western Star newspaper, on the death of London and South Western Railway (LSWR) gas fitter Ernest Browning.[1] Browning…
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…
In our previous post in this series, we started looking at the men injured in the 1924 Manton tunnel accident. So far we’ve been using…
Our previous blog post on the Manton tunnel explosion of May 1924 explored the lives and families of those men who died, Thomas Cockerill and…
In yesterday’s blog post, we explored what happened in the accident at Manton Tunnel, Rutland, on 24 May 1924, and the immediate aftermath. In today’s…