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A question for those with a bit of LMS loco knowledge out there - thanks in advance! We've a staff accident report in the Railway Work, Life & Death project files that mentions LMS engine no. 5000. The accident took place on 16 Feb 1935, at Cheetham Hill Junction, Manchester. Could this be the...

On the 75th anniversary of the NHS, the Railway Work, Life & Death project has put together a blog post, looking at some of the ways the railways dealt with healthcare (particularly in relation to accidents) before the NHS. Keen to share it here - it's a starting point and quite surface-level...

Hi All, Came across a reference on Wikipedia to the Midland Railway keeping an 'ambulance wagon' at Toton to provide treatment for injured shunters, and wondered if anyone had any more info on this? Interested in Toton or any other UK location (outside the works like Derby or Crewe, which had...

The Railway Work, Life & Death project has just released a major new update to its free database of accidents to British and Irish railway staff before 1939. We've added around 25,000 more records, bringing our database to nearly 50,000 in total. The new records come from the ASRS/ NUR union...

Thinking about the Grouping bringing together companies with very different identities and cultures, there's been some interesting discussion about how the mergers were carried out e.g. around branding, liveries and so on. But what about differing operating practices? So, how - in practice - did...

Some of you will be interested in the new details about railway work, railway employees, & their accidents, from the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project (www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk). We've just updated our free database with an additional 17,000 accidents to British & Irish railway staff...

Hopefully of interest to this forum - the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project. We're a volunteer-driven project, looking at accidents to British & Irish railway employees between c.1890 and 1939. We're making freely available details of staff accidents that were investigated by the state...