In the past we’ve blogged about individuals appearing in our records but who weren’t employees of railway companies – detailed here, with an overview here.…
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…
This guest post comes from Arthur Moore, one of our longest-serving volunteers, based with the NRM team. Arthur has a lot to answer for, having…
We started our posts this month with another 2 cases of workers having 2 accidents each, with the promise (threat?) of more multiple accidents to…
The railways were highly ordered and regulated spaces. They had to be, to ensure they ran and that (for passengers at least) they ran safely.…
As a project we’re keen on archives! No great surprise, given the records we rely upon are cared for in archives – and one of…
In the course of looking for something else in our database of British and Irish railway worker accidents, I recently stumbled across a fascinating case…
In previous posts we’ve extolled the virtues of our database as a means of making connections between accidents, whether by location, company, grade of employee,…
In this week’s post, National Railway Museum volunteer Philip James outlines more of what working on the project involves, and one case from our current…
As we’ve noted in the past, the railway companies didn’t just run trains – their interests extended much further. As a result, they employed all…