Our project has focused on accidents to railway workers, rather than passengers, as numerically far more workers were killed or injured on the railways and…
In a timely guest post, Sandra Gittins draws on some of her research into railway workers on the Western Front of the First World War…
Previous blog posts have already discussed the 2 project extensions in place at the National Railway Museum, here and here. But that’s not all we’ve…
We’ve blogged about the dangers of the permanent way before now, including one post about a particularly bad day in 1911. Sadly we have to…
As is probably well known, the birth of the modern mainline railway system was greeted with excitement and fear. The passenger crashes that followed were…
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…
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…