Narrating the lives and losses of young railway workers Ahead of this week’s Crewe: Your Railway, Your Family event, on Thursday 14 September as part…
In last week’s post, we looked at the ways in which the 1923 railway Grouping didn’t actually Group all railway companies. Many pre-1923 railway companies…
Happy International Women’s Day 2021! This seems like a good moment to look forward to some of the data we’re working on behind the scenes,…
On 1 January 1923 a new era of British railway history began. Following state direction of the industry during and after the First World…
In our last post, we used our database of accidents to British and Irish railway staff to look at a few cases occurring immediately around…
Continuing our look at both disability in railway service and our forthcoming new dataset, this week our blog focuses on a case in which sight…
Disability features in our project heavily. Mostly frequently it’s cases where accidents have caused disability (see here for some cases we’ve featured in the past).…
We’re thrilled to release a new data set for you: details of Great Eastern Railway (GER) staff who had been injured at work and applied…
In our fourth Volunteers’ Week blog post, National Railway Museum volunteer Philip James outlines some of what working on the project involves, and one case…
In our previous post we looked at a few of the details we’d found about how some employees were given prosthetics to aid their adaptation…