As a project we’re keen on archives! No great surprise, given the records we rely upon are cared for in archives – and one of…
We were delighted to receive an email from this week’s guest author, Derek Savage, offering further information on one of the more intriguing cases from…
In the course of looking for something else in our database of British and Irish railway worker accidents, I recently stumbled across a fascinating case…
In previous posts we’ve extolled the virtues of our database as a means of making connections between accidents, whether by location, company, grade of employee,…
As we’ve noted in the past, the railway companies didn’t just run trains – their interests extended much further. As a result, they employed all…
When looking at safety, risk and accidents, on the railways and more widely, many interesting questions occur. Some of them are relatively small scale –…
People are absolutely central to our project. Thanks to the hard work of our volunteers, we’re able to get at the individuals behind the big…
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…
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…
Building a railway line was always a challenge – but at least in the early railway era, when Britain was relatively less urbanised, it was…