Spotlight on the railway work, life & death project

The Railway Work, Life & Death project (RWLD; railwayaccidents.port. ac.uk) has added 69,000 records of railway staff accidents to its database. The records date from 1855–1929 and are taken from arch

CHRISTIAN WOLMAR chronicles the dire safety conditions that led to the birth of the unions, and examines their continued presence on today’s railway

The British merchant service was renamed the Merchant Navy after World War 1 to mark the vital role its sailors played in wartime. That role continued in World War 2 as merchant ships carried troops a

GREG MORSE marks the anniversary of a record run between Waterloo and the Dorset resort in July 1985

This issue’s 10 Pictures comes from railfreight follower and photographer Paul Shannon. Having spent his early childhood in Gloucestershire, Paul lived on the outskirts of Manchester from 1963 until 1

Shock as Deltic runs without any headbords… in public! The Deltic Preservation Society has launched an investigation after one of its locos was seen hauling a train without a single headboard. The inc