Whilst 29 February is a ‘rare’ date, sadly accidents to railway workers on past leap days weren’t rare. As we discussed in our previous blog…
In last week’s Disability History Month blog post, we looked at a case which showed staff with hearing loss were employed by the railway companies.…
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…
We try to blog about fairly typical cases found in our project database – like our post two weeks’ ago, on a 1922 shunting accident…
This guest post breaks new ground for the project – by focusing on the experiences of railway staff, written in their own words. As he…
As part of Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine’s ‘Transcription Tuesday’ earlier this year, our project made available a set of records produced…
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…
We’re going beyond the edges of the project in this post, to look at a passenger crash and its aftermath. This week it’s the anniversary…