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…
Network Rail’s recent promo video about the engineering works currently taking place this Christmas is a good reminder that there’s always something happening on our…
Last week I attended an interesting workshop at the University of Reading, looking at the history of freight transport. It touched upon all modes of…
Although the vast majority of people documented by the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project as being injured or killed were employees of the various…
It seems perhaps trite to say that the First World War had an impact on virtually every aspect of life in Britain, but we can…
Volunteers working on the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project have uncovered the stories of nearly 4,000 individuals who were either injured or killed whilst…