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…
Volunteers working on the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project have uncovered the stories of nearly 4,000 individuals who were either injured or killed whilst…
Over the last month there’s been some behind the scenes activity, as we work out our next steps. Some of that is practical – chiefly,…
Our superb volunteers have excelled themselves and have just finished cataloguing all the railway worker accidents investigated by the Railway Inspectors between 1 January 1911…
We might tend to question the extent to which many of the working classes – for it is the working classes who are largely the…
A quick update – the volunteers have been hard at work going through hundreds of accident reports and getting the details into the spreadsheet; I’m…