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…
In our previous post we mentioned some of the immediate post-accident care that injured railway workers might have received – first aid at the scene…
What the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ database shows really nicely – and importantly – is how numerous the ‘mundane’ accidents were: the cases that…
Last week I attended an interesting workshop at the University of Reading, looking at the history of freight transport. It touched upon all modes of…
A guest post, by Arthur Moore, one of the project’s volunteers Having spent some time inputting Board of Trade accident reports on to…