As well as this being ‘Explore your Archive’ week (see yesterday’s post here), it’s also Road Safety Week, run by the charity Brake. Road accidents…
We return to one of the great things about our database for today’s blog post: the way it makes it possible to search the accident…
In the latest of our Volunteers’ Week posts, project volunteer Cheryl Hunnisett, working with us at the Modern Records Centre, takes a look at one…
We’ve noted in the past how a great many accidents happened in mundane circumstances, to a single railway worker – and how this obscured the…
In past blog posts we’ve discussed some of the cases of workers known to have had more than one accident – a theme to which…
In this post we’re pleased to feature another guest contributor, Nick Planas. Nick contacted our project earlier in the year, offering details of an accident…
In many of the cases found in our database the Railway Inspectorate report provides an attribution of responsibility for the accident. Around a quarter of…
In a previous post, we focused on labourer Joseph Brown of the Great Eastern Railway, one of a select few – 15 – who feature…
Yesterday our project Twitter feed (@RWLDproject) tweeted a case in which a worker attempted to apply a vacuum brake with a coupling pole. This caused…
As is probably well known, the birth of the modern mainline railway system was greeted with excitement and fear. The passenger crashes that followed were…