Network Rail’s recent promo video about the engineering works currently taking place this Christmas is a good reminder that there’s always something happening on our…
In our previous post we mentioned some of the immediate post-accident care that injured railway workers might have received – first aid at the scene…
Just a quick post today – to say that we’re thrilled that as part of our collaborative work between the University of Portsmouth and the…
What the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ database shows really nicely – and importantly – is how numerous the ‘mundane’ accidents were: the cases that…
Last week I attended an interesting workshop at the University of Reading, looking at the history of freight transport. It touched upon all modes of…
This week is ‘Explore your Archive’ week, an initiative of The National Archives and the Archives and Records Association. It’s designed to raise awareness of…
In most cases, the people judged (by the companies or the Railway Inspectors) to have caused an accident were the ones who suffered. Presumably this…
In the cases we’ve highlighted so far on this blog, one type of railway worker has been absent: the workshop or factory employee. These were…
We’ve been trying to get an update on the blog once a week since we made the spreadsheet available, drawing on the volunteers’ work and…
One of the aims – and hopes – of the ‘Railway Work, Life & Death’ project was to see if we could contribute to a…