2024’s Disability History Month theme is ‘Disability livelihood and employment’. This is directly relevant to the Railway Work, Life & Death project. As many of…
All of the cases we’re cataloguing in our project database are sad, as at the very least they represent pain having been inflicted. Often they…
We’re delighted to feature this guest post, from Rebecca Wynter, one of the team working on the excellent ‘Forged by Fire’ project, looking at burns…
One of the virtues of our database is that we can cross-reference cases. By doing so, we’ve identified a number of instances in which a…
How did railway employees learn their craft in the late 19th century and on into the 20th? For most grades it was by learning on…
The lot of the Railway Inspector wasn’t always a happy one. Finding out what happened in an accident was never going to be an easy…
To date, signalling is one area of railway work that hasn’t featured prominently in these cases taken from the Project spreadsheet. Signalling was of course…
Accidents of any sort aren’t particularly romantic, it has to be said, but given it’s St Valentine’s Day this week, we thought we’d have a…
Volunteers working on the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project have uncovered the stories of nearly 4,000 individuals who were either injured or killed whilst…