At the moment, Glasgow Queen St station is undergoing a major redevelopment, which has included exposing the Victorian glass frontage, concealed for the last 40…
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…
How far could workers control their own fates? In the 19th century and well into the 20th it was believed by many – certainly the…
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…
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…
If you were glancing through our database of railway worker accidents in haste, you might be forgiven for spotting two similar looking names and thinking…
A guest post, by Arthur Moore, one of the project’s volunteers Having spent some time inputting Board of Trade accident reports on to…
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…