When looking at safety, risk and accidents, on the railways and more widely, many interesting questions occur. Some of them are relatively small scale –…
Around 20% of the accidents that were investigated by the railway inspectors and featured in this project were, tragically, fatalities. No question, then, that work…
In the early 1890s a public scandal arose over the hours some railway employees worked. We might conclude that the press and MPs who took…
It may perhaps surprise us to find women amongst the list of casualties the project has catalogued – but it shouldn’t. Plenty of women worked,…