It’s been a while since we blogged a case from our Great Eastern Railway benevolent fund dataset, so we thought we’d return to it to…
Of all of the types of injuries that appear in our database, burns and scalds are relatively infrequent. This might just be an artefact of…
This week is Rail Safety Week 2019, an industry-led initiative working to improve safety for everyone in rail, whether passenger, worker or more. Everything we…
Our project has focused on accidents to railway workers, rather than passengers, as numerically far more workers were killed or injured on the railways and…
Only 6 weeks’ ago we were at Family Tree Live at Alexandra Palace – and last week we took the project to another family history…
For our final Volunteers’ Week post, we wanted to showcase just a few comments we’ve had on the project, from some of the people using…
We’ve been looking forward to featuring this post from Rosemary Leonard, one of the volunteers working at The National Archives on the railway company records.…
In our fourth Volunteers’ Week blog post, National Railway Museum volunteer Philip James outlines some of what working on the project involves, and one case…
In the latest of our Volunteers’ Week posts, project volunteer Cheryl Hunnisett, working with us at the Modern Records Centre, takes a look at one…
In this post, the second in our series for Volunteers’ Week – the first is here – National Railway Museum volunteer Chris Heaton outlines why…