This week we’re taking a sneak preview at some of the data that will be coming into the project, hopefully later this year. It comes…
On 5 June 1914 Midland Railway fireman Iestyn Newman Nash, 27, was working his turn at Brynamman, Carmarthenshire. Moving some coaches to prepare his train,…
Some days on the railways were worse than others – in total, and for particular grades of workers. The 19th of January was one which…
This month we’ve already highlighted a a number of cases in which workers had 2 accidents (see here and here). Before the month is out,…
Sadly for a great many of our readers the none-too-subtle title of this post will be self-explanatory. The UK’s departure from the European Union on…
In the past we’ve blogged about individuals appearing in our records but who weren’t employees of railway companies – detailed here, with an overview here.…
Around the turn of the twentieth century, the main railway trades unions started complaining about ‘speeding up’: the intensity of work being increased, whether by…
We were delighted to receive an email from this week’s guest author, Derek Savage, offering further information on one of the more intriguing cases from…
In the course of looking for something else in our database of British and Irish railway worker accidents, I recently stumbled across a fascinating case…
People are absolutely central to our project. Thanks to the hard work of our volunteers, we’re able to get at the individuals behind the big…