28 April is Workers’ Memorial Day – an important occasion for us to stop and think about all those who have died, been injured or…
April 1914 saw 2 railway accidents which raise interesting issues about the differences between worker and passenger incidents – particularly as both involved multiple casualties.…
The purpose of our project was to look at accidents involving railway workers, as seen through the reports produced by the Railway Inspectorate of the…
At best, we might think of runaway trains as belonging to the world of high drama, the culmination of an outlandish film plot; at worst,…
The recent snow has affected all of the UK’s transport modes to varying degrees, and the railways have been the subject of much discussion. We’ve…
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…
One of the important things that our database makes it easier for us to see is how often similar cases occur: whether it be the…
Accidents of any sort aren’t particularly romantic, it has to be said, but given it’s St Valentine’s Day this week, we thought we’d have a…
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…
One of the things we wanted the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project to do was to make it easier for you to find out…