Our project is made by everyone who has been involved – particularly the volunteer teams at the institutions involved doing the hard work of transcribing…
When we think of railway accidents in the past, we probably immediately conjure images of the (thankfully rare) big passenger train crashes. Our project has…
Sometimes someone is simply in the wrong place, at the wrong time. On 30 September 1922, Mrs Quelch was one of those people. Her case…
We try to blog about fairly typical cases found in our project database – like our post two weeks’ ago, on a 1922 shunting accident…
Yesterday’s blog looked at the accident at Holywell Junction on 1 September 1922. The next blog posts will look at the men involved. To be…
Recently it was announced that the site of the Edge Hill engine station in Liverpool has been given listed status. This is to mark the…
Alfred Henry Jones. Josiah Jones. Richard Jones. Daniel Roberts. Once again we start a blog post with the names of multiple men killed…
There are many unexpected stories in our project database. Indeed, that’s one of the many excellent things it brings: it allows us to see how…
Continuing our look at the cases found in our new data release, this week we have the 1922 accident to Frederick James Webb. In many…
Our last 2 blog posts have taken an overview of the new project data (available here, free). This week we’re going to start looking at…