Around 20% of the accidents that were investigated by the railway inspectors and featured in this project were, tragically, fatalities. No question, then, that work…
It may perhaps surprise us to find women amongst the list of casualties the project has catalogued – but it shouldn’t. Plenty of women worked,…
A guest post, by Arthur Moore, one of the project’s volunteers Having spent some time inputting Board of Trade accident reports on to…
Undoubtedly the majority of railway worker accidents were incurred by those exposed to danger on a day-to-day basis – the manual grades, like the platelayers,…
We’re delighted to say that the accident data is now available for you to use! You can find it on ‘The Accidents’ page, as a…
Our superb volunteers have excelled themselves and have just finished cataloguing all the railway worker accidents investigated by the Railway Inspectors between 1 January 1911…
Volunteers working on the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project have uncovered the stories of nearly 4,000 individuals who were either injured or killed whilst…
We’ll be adding updates and news to this part of the website as and when relevant. As the project goes on and we have data…
A brief update on what’s been happening and how we’re working, starting with a little necessary technical detail. The accident reports we’re using were produced…
The answer is, of course, one. But we live in the real world, and only too frequently accidents happen. We’d hope only once, but sometimes…