In this post, we’re delighted to welcome guest author Michael Davis. Michael volunteers in a number of railway-related ways, as becomes clear in his post…
This guest post breaks new ground for the project – by focusing on the experiences of railway staff, written in their own words. As he…
Today’s post, from the project’s Helen Ford at the Modern Records Centre, looks at a particularly difficult part of Ireland’s past: the lead up to…
In today’s guest blog post, Julie G takes us back to a place-based approach. She’s interested in Long Buckby Wharf, in Northants – a transport…
We might tend to question the extent to which many of the working classes – for it is the working classes who are largely the…
So far our project has focused on what we’d understand as ‘mainline’ railways. That’s been a product of the sources available to us. It means…
On 5 June 1914 Midland Railway fireman Iestyn Newman Nash, 27, was working his turn at Brynamman, Carmarthenshire. Moving some coaches to prepare his train,…
Some days on the railways were worse than others – in total, and for particular grades of workers. The 19th of January was one which…
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…
Our database is for the most part representative of the accidents incurred by British and Irish railway workers around the time of the First World…