One of the virtues of our database is that we can cross-reference cases. By doing so, we’ve identified a number of instances in which a…
Most of the cases in our database are fairly standard – certainly in terms of being above ground and referring to ‘standard gauge’ track (the…
How did railway employees learn their craft in the late 19th century and on into the 20th? For most grades it was by learning on…
As part of Explore your Archive week (see yesterday’s post here) we’re going to be bringing you a couple of cases taken from the Railway…
As well as this being ‘Explore your Archive’ week (see yesterday’s post here), it’s also Road Safety Week, run by the charity Brake. Road accidents…
We return to one of the great things about our database for today’s blog post: the way it makes it possible to search the accident…
We’re really pleased to be able to feature this guest blog post from Neil Gordon – it’s always heartening to receive contributions, but this is…
We’ve blogged in the past about those cases in our database where staff had two accidents (see here for the most recent of those posts).…
The status of the north east as a producer of coal in the 19th and 20th centuries is well-known; it was one of the important…
The lot of the Railway Inspector wasn’t always a happy one. Finding out what happened in an accident was never going to be an easy…