This week the RMT Union held its annual health and safety advisory conference in York. Focused on improving health and safety for those in all…
4 August is International Beer Day! Never ones to pass up a beer-related opportunity, we had a look through the project database to see what…
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…
The railways were highly ordered and regulated spaces. They had to be, to ensure they ran and that (for passengers at least) they ran safely.…
In the course of the project work, our volunteers have found a huge range of stories that feed into our database. Some are quirky, many…
Over the last 4 years a great deal of attention has been focused on the First World War and its devastating and wide-ranging impacts. We’ve…
In previous posts we’ve featured several cases in which 1 worker suffered 2 accidents (and we’ve already had reports in from our ongoing project extensions…
In railway terms, Waterloo generally brings one thing to mind: the London mainline station, in our period the terminal point of the London & South…
Each case in our database is interesting (and often sad) in its own right. But one of the powerful things the database allows us to…