From time to time we’ve commented on the young age of some of the people encountered in our database – for example, the case of…
With the news just in that our excellent NRM volunteer team have finished transcribing the final batch of state accident reports, covering 1900-1910 and amounting…
How do we connect people & place in our database? Most of the time there are the obvious links: the cases our project is concerned…
In this guest post Norman Gamble, the Archivist of the Irish Railway Record Society (IRRS), introduces the Society and its archives – including the great…
For some staff, getting to or from work was a matter of walking. For permanent way staff, who might be working on track many miles…
Railway working produced all sorts of odd terms, specific to the industry. Some of these are less obvious than others – but one which might…
What questions should the project be asking? What sources should we be bringing into it? How would you want to get involved? What research would…
Earlier this year we put out a call on Twitter to see if anyone would like to write a guest blog post – this kind…
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…