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…
So far our project has only focused on the accidents railway workers suffered: what happened after that, for them, their families and their communities has…
What the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ database shows really nicely – and importantly – is how numerous the ‘mundane’ accidents were: the cases that…
Last week I attended an interesting workshop at the University of Reading, looking at the history of freight transport. It touched upon all modes of…