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. https://t.co/tjGZIatfGh

Really important to see how #History is very much alive in the current #Railway industry! Colin Haynes (@AlstomUK) shares his research into the names on the war memorials at Crewe & Derby works, as a #Railway200 Great Rail Tale: @railway200 https://t.co/6xSZ1lTPnM

And that grew from the wider Railway Work, Life & Death project, exploring railway staff & their accidents & wider lives in Britain & Ireland before 1939. #Railway200 More on that here: https://t.co/Tz8XCRkpzC

There's more on the Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project, which was funded by @HeritageUoP, below. #Railway200 Find out more about railway workers in the wider #Portsmouth area in the past: https://t.co/4m4IMSWpn2

Our thanks to the really engaged audience - so many good questions & ideas, which I and we really appreciated. It was also very pleasing to be able to share the Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts with attendees - given it's a project based in a particular locale, it was apt.

It was really lovely to see old friends in the audience, as well as people we've not encountered before - a great mix, covering #LocalHistory, #FamilyHistory, #RailwayHistory & more! The feedback has been both excellent AND very useful - some new connections to follow up on!

If you were registered for the event but couldn't attend - or wanted to watch again - then the recording will be available for a limited time, so make the most of it! Now looking forward to turning the talk into an article for the @BALHNews's journal, The Local Historian.

Done! With thanks to @BALHNews for the invitation, it was a pleasure & an honour to give the 2025 Dymond Lecture. We flagged the #LocalHistory connections in the Railway Work, Life & Death project - particularly fitting in the #Railway200 year! @railway200

#ICYMI our new blog post is for #DisabilityHistoryMonth! #Railway200 We look at William Parry's life story. Disabled in a 1907 accident at #Bargoed, #Wales, he returned to railway work in a new role: https://t.co/gURa0xTQHV

@railway200 They've come from our Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts project, collaborative with the Havant Local History Group & funded by @HeritageUoP. A huge thanks to all involved in helping find out more about past railway staff in our area, & sharing that with the public for #Railway200!

@railway200 If you can't get to #Havant station, the full life stories for Joseph Simmons & Frank Purdy are available on our Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts page. They feature, along with 24 other past railway workers from our area, researched for #Railway200: https://t.co/4m4IMSWpn2

🚨NEW POSTERS ON DISPLAY! 🚨 If you're at #Havant station, check the FINAL of our Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts #Railway200 posters - now in the ticket office! They tell the life stories of Joseph Simmons & Frank Purdy, who worked at Havant from 1880s-1930s! @railway200

🚨TOMORROW!🚨 Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @BALHNews Dymond Lecture! ‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939 Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online #LocalHistory #Railway200 https://t.co/7xGBlXzR5s

Also important to see the academic input into #Railway200 being flagged and recognised. This was something Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike hoped for when he got involved with Railway 200 as the academic liaison - trying to connect Railway 200 & academics.

Really lovely to see our Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts work featured in the round-up of #Railway200 activity, in yesterday's Railway 200 Working Group meeting! It'll be a boost for the project team - well done all involved!

Just booked to see this at Southampton on 16th December

This is both a rather lovely story, & a rather sad one. The initial loss of identity & connection to mine work, seen through a tangible, symbolic artefact, countered by the efforts 1 man is making to re-connect people/ their descendants to their past: https://t.co/lhf26BbZZU

ONE WEEK'S TIME! We're on board the #Railway200 exhibition train, Inspiration, when it stops at #Southampton - come and find us in the partner zone on Tuesday 16th, with our 'South coast's forgotten railway workers' display! https://t.co/vZSh7SjG2i

Last #Railway200 Working Group meeting of the year this morning! Whilst the focus will probably be on reflection, there's more to come - not least (for us!) taking our 'Portsmouth Area Railway Pasts' project exhibition aboard Inspiration! @railway200 https://t.co/vZSh7SjG2i

Some good news on this story, but the initial position was dreadful. An unusual way in which archives remain precarious even when in formal care & nominal safety. Gillingham museum finds duplicates of destroyed drawings - BBC News

On the 16th Dec, the exhibition will be at an exciting new location – displayed on the ‘Railway200’ travelling exhibition train ‘Inspiration’, during its stop at Southampton Central Station! Book here: https://t.co/zKl5c6F4f0 @RWLDproject @Arch_Tarek_Teba