So far we’ve largely confined ourselves to the cases found in our database, to give you more detail on a small – but increasing –…
Some days on the railways were worse than others – in total, and for particular grades of workers. The 19th of January was one which…
Most of the cases in our database are fairly standard – certainly in terms of being above ground and referring to ‘standard gauge’ track (the…
The accidents and reports from which our database draws reveal much about all sorts of aspects of British and Irish society around the time of…
April 1914 saw 2 railway accidents which raise interesting issues about the differences between worker and passenger incidents – particularly as both involved multiple casualties.…
To date, signalling is one area of railway work that hasn’t featured prominently in these cases taken from the Project spreadsheet. Signalling was of course…
Most people in our database feature only once. But there is a select group of individuals – 15 of them – that feature twice, as…
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…
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…
Around 20% of the accidents that were investigated by the railway inspectors and featured in this project were, tragically, fatalities. No question, then, that work…