This week is ‘Explore your Archive’ week, an initiative of The National Archives and the Archives and Records Association. It’s designed to raise awareness of…
In most cases, the people judged (by the companies or the Railway Inspectors) to have caused an accident were the ones who suffered. Presumably this…
In the cases we’ve highlighted so far on this blog, one type of railway worker has been absent: the workshop or factory employee. These were…
We’ve been trying to get an update on the blog once a week since we made the spreadsheet available, drawing on the volunteers’ work and…
One of the aims – and hopes – of the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project was to see if we could contribute to a…
To date, signalling is one area of railway work that hasn’t featured prominently in these cases taken from the Project spreadsheet. Signalling was of course…
The spreadsheet has been available from the site for around 2 months now, so we thought it might be a good chance to give a…
Around the turn of the twentieth century, the main railway trades unions started complaining about ‘speeding up’: the intensity of work being increased, whether by…
Although the vast majority of people documented by the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project as being injured or killed were employees of the various…
It seems perhaps trite to say that the First World War had an impact on virtually every aspect of life in Britain, but we can…