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…
In this guest post, NRM volunteer Brian Grainger reflects on some questions that have occurred to him in the course of transcribing the state accident…
One of the virtues of our database is that we can cross-reference cases. By doing so, we’ve identified a number of instances in which a…
Over the last 4 years a great deal of attention has been focused on the First World War and its devastating and wide-ranging impacts. We’ve…
How did railway employees learn their craft in the late 19th century and on into the 20th? For most grades it was by learning on…
As part of Explore your Archive week (see yesterday’s post here) we’re going to be bringing you a couple of cases taken from the Railway…
Of all of the types of injuries that appear in our database, burns and scalds are relatively infrequent. This might just be an artefact of…
Recently in my household, we had an object lesson in how government regulations have helped improve our health and wellbeing – via one (big) pane…
As we’re heading towards Halloween, it seems only fitting that we’ve a supernatural case, involving an accident to a railway worker, to bring to your…
In many of the cases found in our database the Railway Inspectorate report provides an attribution of responsibility for the accident. Around a quarter of…