If you were glancing through our database of railway worker accidents in haste, you might be forgiven for spotting two similar looking names and thinking…
Each case in our database is interesting (and often sad) in its own right. But one of the powerful things the database allows us to…
One of the things we wanted the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project to do was to make it easier for you to find out…
Some days on the railways were worse than others – in total, and for particular grades of workers. The 19th of January was one which…
A happy new year to our readers! This week saw a couple of London-based anniversaries, so we thought we’d frame our first substantive post of…
As we approach 2018 we thought it might be interesting to have a look at the junction between the old year and the new as…
Network Rail’s recent promo video about the engineering works currently taking place this Christmas is a good reminder that there’s always something happening on our…
Just a quick post today – to say that we’re thrilled that as part of our collaborative work between the University of Portsmouth and the…
In our previous post we looked at a few of the details we’d found about how some employees were given prosthetics to aid their adaptation…
In our previous post we mentioned some of the immediate post-accident care that injured railway workers might have received – first aid at the scene…