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…
When looking at safety, risk and accidents, on the railways and more widely, many interesting questions occur. Some of them are relatively small scale –…
Around 20% of the accidents that were investigated by the railway inspectors and featured in this project were, tragically, fatalities. No question, then, that work…
In the early 1890s a public scandal arose over the hours some railway employees worked. We might conclude that the press and MPs who took…
It may perhaps surprise us to find women amongst the list of casualties the project has catalogued – but it shouldn’t. Plenty of women worked,…
Undoubtedly the majority of railway worker accidents were incurred by those exposed to danger on a day-to-day basis – the manual grades, like the platelayers,…
We’re delighted to say that the accident data is now available for you to use! You can find it on ‘The Accidents’ page, as a…