The accidents and reports from which our database draws reveal much about all sorts of aspects of British and Irish society around the time of…
How far could workers control their own fates? In the 19th century and well into the 20th it was believed by many – certainly the…
28 April is Workers’ Memorial Day – an important occasion for us to stop and think about all those who have died, been injured or…
What place did the horse have in the steam railway? Perhaps surprisingly, a big one. Horses were essential for shunting wagons in yards and for…
To date, signalling is one area of railway work that hasn’t featured prominently in these cases taken from the Project spreadsheet. Signalling was of course…
A short post this week, marking Easter, with the only case in our database with an Easter connection – however tenuous. Today it’s the case…
The purpose of our project was to look at accidents involving railway workers, as seen through the reports produced by the Railway Inspectorate of the…
One of the important things that our database makes it easier for us to see is how often similar cases occur: whether it be the…
Accidents of any sort aren’t particularly romantic, it has to be said, but given it’s St Valentine’s Day this week, we thought we’d have a…
If you were glancing through our database of railway worker accidents in haste, you might be forgiven for spotting two similar looking names and thinking…