Continuing our look at both disability in railway service and our forthcoming new dataset, this week our blog focuses on a case in which sight…
We’ve blogged in the past about disabled staff employed in railway service, including hearing loss, the subject of today’s post. Where it appears in the…
In our past blog posts we’ve usually concentrated on the project subject matter, whether that be cases found in the records we’re working with, contributions…
In this guest blog post, one anonymous project volunteer looks at a very specific aspect noticed in the entries in the volume of one railway…
This blog is our final post in this series, ahead of the centenary tomorrow of the 1921 Stapleton Road accident. Yesterday we looked at the…
Following yesterday’s look at Charles Oakhill, and the railway connections in his family, today we turn to another railway family caught up in the Stapleton…
Yesterday we started introducing the men involved in the Stapleton Road accident. Today we focus on just one man, for whom we have more information:…
Yesterday we discussed the institutional responses to the Stapleton Road accident; from this point onwards, we look more at the personal impacts, on the men…
Yesterday’s blog post looked at what happened in the 1921 Stapleton Road accident on the Great Western Railway (GWR). Today we turn to the institutional…
Charles Edmonds. Herbert George North. Charles Oakhill. Joseph Barrett. Arthur Hobbs. Stephen Albert Francis. On 26 September 1921, these six track workers died…