On 1 January 1923 a new era of British railway history began. Following state direction of the industry during and after the First World…
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…
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…
Earlier this year, we added to our database an additional 17,000 cases of accident to British & Irish railway workers before 1939. Sadly, this means…
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…
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…
Following Monday’s blog post, previous blog contributor Rosie Rowley was inspired to do a bit more research into Frederick Webb, the man at the heart…
Continuing our look at the cases found in our new data release, this week we have the 1922 accident to Frederick James Webb. In many…