On 1 January 1923 a new era of British railway history began. Following state direction of the industry during and after the First World…
On 14 October 2022, King’s Cross station in London will be 170 years old. To mark this anniversary, this week’s blog post looks at accidents…
Recently it was announced that the site of the Edge Hill engine station in Liverpool has been given listed status. This is to mark the…
We’ve already blogged about a couple of cases of multiple accidents: when our database has shown a worker had more than one accident. We’ve considered…
This week we have another guest post from Philip James, part of the NRM team and our most prolific blog contributor – read his other…
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).…
Continuing our Disability History Month exploration of the new Great Eastern Railway (GER) data (see last week’s post, here), this week we’re focusing on a…
Today we are fortunate in that the idea of work-life balance exists – if only as an ideal, in many cases. People interested in understanding…
As travellers today (when we’re able to resume travelling) we may be less than enamoured of the toilets on trains – all too often cramped,…
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…