28 April is Workers’ Memorial Day – an important occasion for us to stop and think about all those who have died, been injured or…
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…
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…
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…
Most people in our database feature only once. But there is a select group of individuals – 15 of them – that feature twice, as…
We’re thrilled to say that we’re going to be in action again soon – and at one of our home bases, the National Railway Museum.…
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,…