The majority of this post was contributed by one of our anonymous volunteers, who had been doing the fiddly but essential job of going over…
Earlier this week we launched our third set of data about accidents to railway staff (see here). It comes from a record of legal cases…
From Tralee and Belfast to Inverness, and Wrexham to Ashford and Penzance, our newest data release shows the impact of staff railway accidents in the…
UPDATED 17/12/2019 – The Transcription Tuesday data is now available! Find out more here. For Transcription Tuesday, taking place on 5 February, we’re…
UPDATED 17/12/2019 – The Transcription Tuesday data is now available! Find out more here. Continuing the build up to next week’s Transcription Tuesday, we’ve…
UPDATED 17/12/2019 – The Transcription Tuesday data is now available! Find out more here. Although Transcription Tuesday is still a little way off,…
Last year we blogged about some of the railway staff who were injured at work and then went on to fight and die in the…
In this guest post, former railway worker and now family historian Martin O’Donnell looks at one surprising accident he found in his family past. It…
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…