We might tend to question the extent to which many of the working classes – for it is the working classes who are largely the…
When looking at safety, risk and accidents, on the railways and more widely, many interesting questions occur. Some of them are relatively small scale –…
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…
We’re really pleased to be able to feature this guest blog post from Neil Gordon – it’s always heartening to receive contributions, but this is…
In the past we’ve featured cases from our database involving railway employees who were what we’d now understand as children: R Kennedy, for example, who…
We’re really pleased to be able to feature this guest post from Yvonne Kerry. In the course of researching her family history she came across…
We’ve featured a burns case in the past – in that instance, it was electrical burns. But often lumped together with burns are scalds, something…
We’ve blogged about the dangers of the permanent way before now, including one post about a particularly bad day in 1911. Sadly we have to…
If you’re in the UK, you’ll have noticed it’s been rather cold of late, including a lot of snow. Despite the adverse comment about some…
What the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ database shows really nicely – and importantly – is how numerous the ‘mundane’ accidents were: the cases that…