As guest author Alexandra Foulds notes, this post came about by a chance connection on Twitter – fortunately, though the subject matter is, perhaps needless…
Last year the author of this guest post, Tom Hall, got in touch with us. Having found out about the project, he wanted to let…
In this post, guest author Mark Rothwell looks at the service of GWR railway policewoman Lilian Gale – including her fatal accident at work in…
We’re delighted to have received this timely guest post from long-time project friend and support Steve Jackson. It’s timely because, as Steve notes, it meshes…
In this week’s post, project volunter Philip James looks at some of the challenges of working with large quantites of data across a team of…
This post was contributed by one of our anonymous volunteers, who has been doing the fiddly but essential job of going over the data and…
One of the many advantages of our data is that it allows us to look at trends and different types of accidents over time. In…
In this post, project volunteer Brian Grainger, with the NRM team, raises some questions about the practicalities of the Board of Trade accident inspectors’ work.…
We’re pleased to be able to feature another guest contribution, from family historian Enid Rispin looking back at the railway ancestors in her family –…
In this week’s post, guest author Rob Langham takes us back almost to birth of the railway age in England – a time when railways…