As travellers today (when we’re able to resume travelling) we may be less than enamoured of the toilets on trains – all too often cramped,…
From time to time we’ve commented on the young age of some of the people encountered in our database – for example, the case of…
The railways were highly ordered and regulated spaces. They had to be, to ensure they ran and that (for passengers at least) they ran safely.…
As we’ve noted in the past, the railway companies didn’t just run trains – their interests extended much further. As a result, they employed all…
There are many cases in our database in which we see similar circumstances – and often similar outcomes: track workers hit by trains, shunters crushed…
Building a railway line was always a challenge – but at least in the early railway era, when Britain was relatively less urbanised, it was…
All of the cases we’re cataloguing in our project database are sad, as at the very least they represent pain having been inflicted. Often they…
Most of the cases in our database are fairly standard – certainly in terms of being above ground and referring to ‘standard gauge’ track (the…
Over the last 4 years a great deal of attention has been focused on the First World War and its devastating and wide-ranging impacts. We’ve…
The status of the north east as a producer of coal in the 19th and 20th centuries is well-known; it was one of the important…