Earlier this week we launched our third set of data about accidents to railway staff (see here). It comes from a record of legal cases…
From Tralee and Belfast to Inverness, and Wrexham to Ashford and Penzance, our newest data release shows the impact of staff railway accidents in the…
In the course of looking for something else in our database of British and Irish railway worker accidents, I recently stumbled across a fascinating case…
One of the virtues of our database is that we can cross-reference cases. By doing so, we’ve identified a number of instances in which a…
Last year we blogged about some of the railway staff who were injured at work and then went on to fight and die in the…
How did railway employees learn their craft in the late 19th century and on into the 20th? For most grades it was by learning on…
October, it turns out, has been a busy month for us. Over the course of 3 weeks we’ve participated in events involving 3 of our…
We return to one of the great things about our database for today’s blog post: the way it makes it possible to search the accident…
We’ve blogged in the past about those cases in our database where staff had two accidents (see here for the most recent of those posts).…
Last Saturday, as I arrived home from the U3A Family History Conference, I spotted a discussion on Twitter that was sad to read. Else Churchill,…