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…
Last year the author of this guest post, Tom Hall, got in touch with us. Having found out about the project, he wanted to let…
In this post, guest author Mark Rothwell looks at the service of GWR railway policewoman Lilian Gale – including her fatal accident at work in…
Our database is for the most part representative of the accidents incurred by British and Irish railway workers around the time of the First World…
We’re delighted to have received this timely guest post from long-time project friend and support Steve Jackson. It’s timely because, as Steve notes, it meshes…
In January 2021 we received a comment on one of our blog posts. Sid Harbour had contacted us, saying ‘I have just discovered your website.…
In this week’s post, project volunter Philip James looks at some of the challenges of working with large quantites of data across a team of…
This post was contributed by one of our anonymous volunteers, who has been doing the fiddly but essential job of going over the data and…