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.…
In this blog post we continue our occasional series produced by University of Portsmouth History degree students as part of their course. For their second-year…
In this blog post we start a series, running through the rest of the year, produced by University of Portsmouth History degree students as part…
A year ago today we made public a huge new dataset – around 25,000 cases involving trade union members. They belonged to the Amalgamated Society…
In three weeks’ time, on 27 March 2023, we’ll be releasing another update to our database of accidents to British and Irish railway staff before…
Whilst 29 February is a ‘rare’ date, sadly accidents to railway workers on past leap days weren’t rare. As we discussed in our previous blog…
A leap year and a leap day are always a bit unusual. Sadly for the railways they weren’t so unusual in terms of the accidents…
This week the RMT Union held its annual health and safety advisory conference in York. Focused on improving health and safety for those in all…
No doubt you’ll all have read – avidly – every line of the 50,000 or so cases currently in our database. Well – perhaps not…