How do we connect people & place in our database? Most of the time there are the obvious links: the cases our project is concerned…
For some staff, getting to or from work was a matter of walking. For permanent way staff, who might be working on track many miles…
Railway working produced all sorts of odd terms, specific to the industry. Some of these are less obvious than others – but one which might…
Around the turn of the twentieth century, the main railway trades unions started complaining about ‘speeding up’: the intensity of work being increased, whether by…
We started our posts this month with another 2 cases of workers having 2 accidents each, with the promise (threat?) of more multiple accidents to…
In previous posts we’ve extolled the virtues of our database as a means of making connections between accidents, whether by location, company, grade of employee,…
When looking at safety, risk and accidents, on the railways and more widely, many interesting questions occur. Some of them are relatively small scale –…
Two weeks’ ago we looked at accidents to carriage and wagon staff who were keeping the railway network’s on-train toilets stocked. Provision was clearly made…
Building a railway line was always a challenge – but at least in the early railway era, when Britain was relatively less urbanised, it was…
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…