Last year the author of this guest post, Tom Hall, got in touch with us. Having found out about the project, he wanted to let…
In this post, guest author Mark Rothwell looks at the service of GWR railway policewoman Lilian Gale – including her fatal accident at work in…
We’re delighted to have received this timely guest post from long-time project friend and support Steve Jackson. It’s timely because, as Steve notes, it meshes…
One of the many advantages of our data is that it allows us to look at trends and different types of accidents over time. In…
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 pleased to be able to feature another guest contribution, from family historian Enid Rispin looking back at the railway ancestors in her family –…
In this week’s post, guest author Rob Langham takes us back almost to birth of the railway age in England – a time when railways…
This week we have a guest post from Philip James, looking at another accident he transcribed as part of his role as an NRM project…
In the early 1890s a public scandal arose over the hours some railway employees worked. We might conclude that the press and MPs who took…
It seems every aspect of railway working was (is?) full of arcane practices. Shunting – moving wagons and carriages around to get them into the…