Our project is documenting the many risks incidental to railway working – including at times animal dangers. We’ll be coming back to the more usual…
As guest author Alexandra Foulds notes, this post came about by a chance connection on Twitter – fortunately, though the subject matter is, perhaps needless…
Some days on the railways were worse than others – in total, and for particular grades of workers. The 19th of January was one which…
In this guest post, former railway worker and now family historian Martin O’Donnell looks at one surprising accident he found in his family past. It…
In our fourth Volunteers’ Week blog post, National Railway Museum volunteer Philip James outlines some of what working on the project involves, and one case…
In railway terms, Waterloo generally brings one thing to mind: the London mainline station, in our period the terminal point of the London & South…
One of the important things that our database makes it easier for us to see is how often similar cases occur: whether it be the…
Accidents of any sort aren’t particularly romantic, it has to be said, but given it’s St Valentine’s Day this week, we thought we’d have a…
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…
A happy new year to our readers! This week saw a couple of London-based anniversaries, so we thought we’d frame our first substantive post of…