In January 2021 we received a comment on one of our blog posts. Sid Harbour had contacted us, saying ‘I have just discovered your website.…
One of the many advantages of our data is that it allows us to look at trends and different types of accidents over time. In…
Disability features in our project heavily. Mostly frequently it’s cases where accidents have caused disability (see here for some cases we’ve featured in the past).…
In this week’s post, guest author Rob Langham takes us back almost to birth of the railway age in England – a time when railways…
In this guest post, project volunteer Stephen Lamb looks at one of the cases he’s transcribed from the records of the Amalgamated Society of Railway…
We’re thrilled to release a new data set for you: details of Great Eastern Railway (GER) staff who had been injured at work and applied…
Continuing our Disability History Month exploration of the new Great Eastern Railway (GER) data (see last week’s post, here), this week we’re focusing on a…
It seems every aspect of railway working was (is?) full of arcane practices. Shunting – moving wagons and carriages around to get them into the…
In the course of her research into the military railway aspects of the First World War, Sandra Gittins has already found a number of accidents…
As travellers today (when we’re able to resume travelling) we may be less than enamoured of the toilets on trains – all too often cramped,…