Most of the cases in our database are fairly standard – certainly in terms of being above ground and referring to ‘standard gauge’ track (the…
Over the last 4 years a great deal of attention has been focused on the First World War and its devastating and wide-ranging impacts. We’ve…
How did railway employees learn their craft in the late 19th century and on into the 20th? For most grades it was by learning on…
As part of Explore your Archive week (see yesterday’s post here) we’re going to be bringing you a couple of cases taken from the Railway…
It’s all very well being aware there are institutions known as archives, which collect together, preserve and make available records from our past. Another piece…
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…
This is our last post for Explore your Archive week (see the previous post here) – next week we’ll be returning to our usual weekly…
October, it turns out, has been a busy month for us. Over the course of 3 weeks we’ve participated in events involving 3 of our…
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…
We’re really pleased to be able to feature this guest blog post from Neil Gordon – it’s always heartening to receive contributions, but this is…