In a timely guest post, Sandra Gittins draws on some of her research into railway workers on the Western Front of the First World War…
So far in our posts for Disability History Month and focusing on the Great Eastern Railway’s benevolent fund book (see here and here) we’ve looked…
In our previous post we looked at a few of the details we’d found about how some employees were given prosthetics to aid their adaptation…
Hot off the press, we’re delighted to say that we’ve just had a favourable ethical opinion on the next project extension. It’s going to bring…
We’re going beyond the edges of the project in this post, to look at a passenger crash and its aftermath. This week it’s the anniversary…
In this guest blog post, Steve Chown outlines the few details he has of his grandfather Jim’s accident on the railways around the time of…
After many years of concern, the 1902 Prevention of Accidents Rules introduced several measures to improve railway worker safety. One was the requirement to cover…
As we’re heading towards Halloween, it seems only fitting that we’ve a supernatural case, involving an accident to a railway worker, to bring to your…
Regular readers of this blog & our Twitter feed (@RWLDproject) will know we’re always keen to take the project out to as many people as…
Previous blog posts have already discussed the 2 project extensions in place at the National Railway Museum, here and here. But that’s not all we’ve…