OldRailwayAccidents

Welcome to the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project account! Check our expanding database of British & Irish railway worker accidents, covering 1855-1939 - all free! Currently over 117,000 cases, with more to come. railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk

A new programme of free training from The National Archives is available now! Learn more about the training, in collaboration with the Community Archives and Heritage Group, here: balh.org.uk/news-free-comm… #WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

The Summer Reading Challenge is live at 34 stations across @Se_Railway We're giving out over 16,000 free packs that include activities and reading inspiration for children aged 4-11 The Challenge encourages children to keep reading during the summer holidays 👇

Famous LMS photo in collection of the day beginning at Camden. Unknown original photographer.

TWO WEEKS TODAY! The next walking tours of Didcot Railway Centre will be on Saturday 1 August. Come along & find out more about the men & women who kept Didcot & the Great Western Railway moving. Meet at the Enquiry Office at 11.30 and 14.00 - all free once you're on site. 👇

I am giving my first public talk in a very long time at @Hullhistorynews next month - all welcome!

'Ode to Bentinck Pit', BBC Sounds @ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0… Written by Bentinck coal miner, Arthur Ludlam, it featured in BBC Radio 4's series, 'Tongue & Talk: The Dialect Poets' in 2018 & in 'Coal in the Blood: An East Midlands Coal Mining Anthology' (2021). #miningheritage

🚨ONE DAY LEFT!🚨 Act now - FREE access to the Journal of Transport History's virtual collection on US transport & mobility histories! 👇 x.com/RWLDproject/st…

Off to #Crewe today! Neatly fitting in two related tasks - photographing volume 2 of Crewe works accident records from the early 1920s, & meeting with colleagues to discuss how we share the people stories in those records. All of this coming into the project in the future!

For anyone gearing up for the #Football but needing a #RailwayHistory fix, we've the perfect read! #WorldCup Railways and football have a long history - here's how it played out for some railway workers, during lunch breaks & beyond: railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/football-and-r…

So if Farage wins, he won against a bin, & if he loses, he lost against a bin. It’s a bin bin situation.

My son Will is doing a sponsored walk for the Alzheimer’s Society. He helps to care for his grandmother (my mum) who has the disease. Appreciating many of us have experiences of this, he’d be welcome of any support. Thank you! justgiving.com/page/william-o…

UCU members at London South Bank University have begun a marking and assessment boycott. Strikes will hit exam resit week from 20 to 24 July. LSBU management plans to terminate the contracts of academic staff and rehire them on worse terms. New staff would be employed through a sham company and denied access to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme. Members are urging management to get round the table so students can graduate. ucu.org.uk/article/14578/…

Busy times for the Railway Work, Life & Death project! * Over the weekend made progress on an existing heritage railway collaboration; * Have been proofing print work for 2 new heritage railway collaborations; * Have been setting up further current mainline rail collaboration.

🚨4 DAYS LEFT!🚨 FREE access to this virtual collection of articles from the Journal of Transport History - until 18 July. Get it now, while you can! 👇

1/ Four people die on UK roads every day. Someone is killed or injured every 18 minutes. 1,600 deaths and 28,000 serious injuries a year. This isn't statistics. This is normalised violence in our public space. 🧵

Pleasley Pit Heritage Open Days, Sat 12th & Sun 13th Sept 2026 (10am-4pm). The site's digital coalmining heritage trail can be accessed at mytrail.co.uk/location-pleas…

UK is sabotaging its own future by closing university courses in: Chemistry, Nursing, Physics, Modern Languages, Music Astronomy, Creative Arts, English, History, Classics A gutting of the disciplines that keep people alive, drive discovery & sustain any claim to culture

#ICYMI our new blog post came out over the weekend, looking at #Football and #Railways! 👇 x.com/RWLDproject/st…

CONGRATULATIONS to all the @NorthumbriaUni students graduating last week and this week. You're amazing! So are your lecturers, and they deserve not to have their pay and jobs cut. You can help them defend pay and jobs by using the QR code below...@ucu