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,…
There’s never a dull moment for us, but the last couple of weeks have been particularly busy. On top of the usual things, we’ve submitted…
In the course of the project work, our volunteers have found a huge range of stories that feed into our database. Some are quirky, many…
The status of the north east as a producer of coal in the 19th and 20th centuries is well-known; it was one of the important…
Well – hopefully not your own accidents, but we are interested in any cases of accidents to railway workers in the past about which you…
The lot of the Railway Inspector wasn’t always a happy one. Finding out what happened in an accident was never going to be an easy…