A happy new year to our readers! This week saw a couple of London-based anniversaries, so we thought we’d frame our first substantive post of…
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…
In most cases, the people judged (by the companies or the Railway Inspectors) to have caused an accident were the ones who suffered. Presumably this…
It may perhaps surprise us to find women amongst the list of casualties the project has catalogued – but it shouldn’t. Plenty of women worked,…
The answer is, of course, one. But we live in the real world, and only too frequently accidents happen. We’d hope only once, but sometimes…