What place did the horse have in the steam railway? Perhaps surprisingly, a big one. Horses were essential for shunting wagons in yards and for…
April 1914 saw 2 railway accidents which raise interesting issues about the differences between worker and passenger incidents – particularly as both involved multiple casualties.…
A short post this week, marking Easter, with the only case in our database with an Easter connection – however tenuous. Today it’s the case…
The purpose of our project was to look at accidents involving railway workers, as seen through the reports produced by the Railway Inspectorate of the…
Most people in our database feature only once. But there is a select group of individuals – 15 of them – that feature twice, as…
We’re thrilled to say that we’re going to be in action again soon – and at one of our home bases, the National Railway Museum.…
At best, we might think of runaway trains as belonging to the world of high drama, the culmination of an outlandish film plot; at worst,…
The recent snow has affected all of the UK’s transport modes to varying degrees, and the railways have been the subject of much discussion. We’ve…
If you’re in the UK, you’ll have noticed it’s been rather cold of late, including a lot of snow. Despite the adverse comment about some…
Today’s post is a little different to usual – though hopefully still relevant and interesting to our readers. Typically we’ve taken a case or two…