Our project is documenting the many risks incidental to railway working – including at times animal dangers. We’ll be coming back to the more usual…
This week we’re taking a sneak preview at some of the data that will be coming into the project, hopefully later this year. It comes…
Happy International Women’s Day 2021! This seems like a good moment to look forward to some of the data we’re working on behind the scenes,…
On 5 June 1914 Midland Railway fireman Iestyn Newman Nash, 27, was working his turn at Brynamman, Carmarthenshire. Moving some coaches to prepare his train,…
In January 2021 we received a comment on one of our blog posts. Sid Harbour had contacted us, saying ‘I have just discovered your website.…
Something of a departure for our usual project focus, this week’s blog makes use of an accident report type we don’t usually have reason to…
This post was contributed by one of our anonymous volunteers, who has been doing the fiddly but essential job of going over the data and…
Sadly for a great many of our readers the none-too-subtle title of this post will be self-explanatory. The UK’s departure from the European Union on…
Some months ago I was sent an intriguing image by Robert Kitching of the Bowes Railway (whose guest post will be appearing soon!). The image…
Disability features in our project heavily. Mostly frequently it’s cases where accidents have caused disability (see here for some cases we’ve featured in the past).…