Holidays were odd times for the railways. Many services – particularly goods – kept moving, so at least some staff were still at work. Yet…
A year ago today we made public a huge new dataset – around 25,000 cases involving trade union members. They belonged to the Amalgamated Society…
Continuing our Women’s History Month focus on where women feature in our project database, this week we’re turning to what remains a concern for the…
We’ve posted about accidents to women railway workers before (see here and here). Each time we’ve noted that there are relatively women in our data…
On 4 March 2024, a passenger train struck an object on the tracks at Walton-on-Thames. Part of the train derailed, though thankfully no-one was hurt.…
March is Women’s History Month, and once again is a good opportunity for our project to reflect on where women appear in our work. This…
In three weeks’ time, on 27 March 2023, we’ll be releasing another update to our database of accidents to British and Irish railway staff before…
Whilst 29 February is a ‘rare’ date, sadly accidents to railway workers on past leap days weren’t rare. As we discussed in our previous blog…
A leap year and a leap day are always a bit unusual. Sadly for the railways they weren’t so unusual in terms of the accidents…
This week the RMT Union held its annual health and safety advisory conference in York. Focused on improving health and safety for those in all…