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…
There are many cases in our database in which we see similar circumstances – and often similar outcomes: track workers hit by trains, shunters crushed…
We’re grateful to Ian Strugnell for this guest blog post. Ian is a member of the Great Eastern Railway Society, and got in touch after…
In this guest blog post, Sue Page looks at the life & death of her Great Grandfather and the impact it had on his family…
Building a railway line was always a challenge – but at least in the early railway era, when Britain was relatively less urbanised, it was…
Just over a month ago, we released our third dataset – the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS) legal book, covering 1901-1905. It contains over…
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…
Last year we blogged about some of the railway staff who were injured at work and then went on to fight and die in the…