This post is one of a series exploring how different types of historian might approach the same source in different ways, so we can better…
In this guest post, Francis Howcutt recounts the accidental death of Arthur Bott, a brother of his great grandfather. Arthur’s history is an example of…
Francis Howcutt has looked at where his family history and railways met previously, in this blog post, so we’re delighted to welcome him back. In…
The pressures of railway work come up in myriad ways in our project database. Perhaps most commonly they appear in relation to time and trying…
As part of Disability History Month, our recent blog posts (here and here) have focused on physical disabilities caused by railway work. But what about…
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…
When we think of railway accidents in the past, we probably immediately conjure images of the (thankfully rare) big passenger train crashes. Our project has…
Sometimes someone is simply in the wrong place, at the wrong time. On 30 September 1922, Mrs Quelch was one of those people. Her case…
We try to blog about fairly typical cases found in our project database – like our post two weeks’ ago, on a 1922 shunting accident…
Recently it was announced that the site of the Edge Hill engine station in Liverpool has been given listed status. This is to mark the…