In railway terms, Waterloo generally brings one thing to mind: the London mainline station, in our period the terminal point of the London & South…
Yesterday our project Twitter feed (@RWLDproject) tweeted a case in which a worker attempted to apply a vacuum brake with a coupling pole. This caused…
28 April is Workers’ Memorial Day – an important occasion for us to stop and think about all those who have died, been injured or…
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,…
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…
Accidents of any sort aren’t particularly romantic, it has to be said, but given it’s St Valentine’s Day this week, we thought we’d have a…
Each case in our database is interesting (and often sad) in its own right. But one of the powerful things the database allows us to…
Around 20% of the accidents that were investigated by the railway inspectors and featured in this project were, tragically, fatalities. No question, then, that work…
It may perhaps surprise us to find women amongst the list of casualties the project has catalogued – but it shouldn’t. Plenty of women worked,…
Undoubtedly the majority of railway worker accidents were incurred by those exposed to danger on a day-to-day basis – the manual grades, like the platelayers,…