John Cockerill William Hibbert George Buckby Richard Shillaker Thomas Shillcock Five men, at work at Manton junction and tunnel, in Rutland, on Saturday 24…
In this week’s blog post, guest author Daisy Turnbull looks at some of the challenges involved in crossing railway lines in the past. As she…
Narrating the lives and losses of young railway workers Ahead of this week’s Crewe: Your Railway, Your Family event, on Thursday 14 September as part…
Narrating the lives and losses of young railway workers The second in the occasional series relating to staff accidents at Crewe. Guest author Margaret…
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…
In yesterday’s blog post, we explored what happened in the accident at Manton Tunnel, Rutland, on 24 May 1924, and the immediate aftermath. In today’s…
The previous four blog posts in this series, the most recent of which is here, have focused on the past. Today’s post links past and…
In our previous post in this series, we started looking at the men injured in the 1924 Manton tunnel accident. So far we’ve been using…
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.…