This post is one of a series exploring how the same source might be approached in different ways by different types of researcher, so we…
This post is one of a series exploring how the same source might be approached in different ways by different types of researcher, so we…
This post is one of a series exploring how the same source might be approached in different ways by different types of researcher, so we…
by Stephen Foster You can download the story here as a PDF. Our particular thanks to Stephen for writing this and for allowing us…
This post is one of a series exploring how the same source might be approached in different ways by different types of researcher, so we…
In this post, guest author Mark Greenwood looks at a passenger accident from 1884, which went on to have an interesting ‘afterlife’ in various forms…
In this week’s post, from guest author Gordon Dudman, some of the legal issues raised by railway accidents come to light. These weren’t, however, arcane…
As travellers today (when we’re able to resume travelling) we may be less than enamoured of the toilets on trains – all too often cramped,…
Two weeks’ ago we looked at accidents to carriage and wagon staff who were keeping the railway network’s on-train toilets stocked. Provision was clearly made…
There are many cases in our database in which we see similar circumstances – and often similar outcomes: track workers hit by trains, shunters crushed…