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…
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…
On the bookshelves of many in the rail industry and many more rail enthusiasts, you’ll probably find a copy of Tom Rolt’s Red for Danger.…
In this blog post we continue our occasional series produced by University of Portsmouth History degree students as part of their course. For their second-year…
In this blog post we continue our series produced by University of Portsmouth History degree students as part of their course this year. For their…
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…
A year ago today we made public a huge new dataset – around 25,000 cases involving trade union members. They belonged to the Amalgamated Society…
Continuing our Women’s History Month focus on where women feature in our project database, this week we’re turning to what remains a concern for the…
We’ve posted about accidents to women railway workers before (see here and here). Each time we’ve noted that there are relatively women in our data…
On 4 March 2024, a passenger train struck an object on the tracks at Walton-on-Thames. Part of the train derailed, though thankfully no-one was hurt.…