Building a railway line was always a challenge – but at least in the early railway era, when Britain was relatively less urbanised, it was…
We’re really pleased to be able to feature this guest blog post from Neil Gordon – it’s always heartening to receive contributions, but this is…
We’re delighted to receive this guest post, contributed by Fiona Forde, one of the people who’ve used our database. Fiona saw our tweet (@RWLDproject) about…
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…
In railway terms, Waterloo generally brings one thing to mind: the London mainline station, in our period the terminal point of the London & South…
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…
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…
April 1914 saw 2 railway accidents which raise interesting issues about the differences between worker and passenger incidents – particularly as both involved multiple casualties.…
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…