In three weeks’ time, on 27 March 2023, we’ll be releasing another update to our database of accidents to British and Irish railway staff before…
Over the course of our project work, we’ve done a lot. However, that’s only scratched the surface of the broad topic of railway worker accidents.…
In last week’s post, we looked at the ways in which the 1923 railway Grouping didn’t actually Group all railway companies. Many pre-1923 railway companies…
In our previous post in this series, we looked at accidents in our database from the newly-Grouped companies over the course of 1923. There’s no…
Six months ago, we added an extra 17,000 records to our project database. Since then we’ve been promoting the database and trying to ensure people…
In our last post, we used our database of accidents to British and Irish railway staff to look at a few cases occurring immediately around…
On 1 January 1923 a new era of British railway history began. Following state direction of the industry during and after the First World…
The pressures of railway work come up in myriad ways in our project database. Perhaps most commonly they appear in relation to time and trying…
In last week’s Disability History Month blog post, we looked at a case which showed staff with hearing loss were employed by the railway companies.…
As part of Disability History Month, our recent blog posts (here and here) have focused on physical disabilities caused by railway work. But what about…