In this post, guest contributor Sandra Gittins brings us back to the First World War, when accidents to railway staff didn’t stop. She’s already blogged…
Whilst as a project the records we’re making available are focused on Britain and Ireland, we’re interested in how railway safety has played out in…
As part of Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine’s ‘Transcription Tuesday’ earlier this year, our project made available a set of records produced…
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…
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…
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…
As part of Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine’s ‘Transcription Tuesday’, our project made available a set of records produced by the Amalgamated Society…
Well – hopefully not your own accidents, but we are interested in any cases of accidents to railway workers in the past about which you…
In this guest post, project supporter Peter Munro looks at a passenger accident from 1914 – what would today be known as a ‘trap and…
We’ve been looking forward to featuring this post from Rosemary Leonard, one of the volunteers working at The National Archives on the railway company records.…