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…
The accidents and reports from which our database draws reveal much about all sorts of aspects of British and Irish society around the time of…
28 April is Workers’ Memorial Day – an important occasion for us to stop and think about all those who have died, been injured or…
What place did the horse have in the steam railway? Perhaps surprisingly, a big one. Horses were essential for shunting wagons in yards and for…
April 1914 saw 2 railway accidents which raise interesting issues about the differences between worker and passenger incidents – particularly as both involved multiple casualties.…
To date, signalling is one area of railway work that hasn’t featured prominently in these cases taken from the Project spreadsheet. Signalling was of course…
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…
Most people in our database feature only once. But there is a select group of individuals – 15 of them – that feature twice, as…
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,…
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…